A small diversion. What (fairly famous, I hope, though some are probably more familiar than others) lines follow the extracts below? Bonus points if you identify the authors.
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1
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the...
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
TS Eliot - The Hollow Men (both parts identified by ToastBasedKillah with a bonus to Carlo Ginzburg for precision)
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2
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable hour:-...
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Thomas Gray - Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard (both parts identified by nefertiti)
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3
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou sayst,...
Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats - Ode on a Grecian Urn (both parts identified by Ibn Pickthall)
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4
And though that he were worthy, he was wys,
And of his port as meeke as is a mayde.
He nevere yet no vileynye ne sayde
In al his lyf unto no maner wight...
He was a verray, parfit, gentil knyght. (identified by nefertiti)
Geoffrey Chaucer - The General Prologue to the Canterbury tales (identified by Purves Grundy)
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5
Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought...
And not waving but drowning. (identified by Purves Grundy)
Stevie Smith - Not Waving But Drowning (identified by nefertiti)
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6
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;...
Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all (identified by Ibn Pickthall)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Lost Love from In Memoriam (identified by Ginger Yellow)
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7
Why, if 'tis dancing you would be,
There's brisker pipes than poetry.
Say, for what were hop-yards meant,
Or why was Burton built on Trent?
Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,...
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man. (identified by nefertiti)
AE Houseman - Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff from A Shropshire Lad (identified by Carlo Ginzburg)
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8
Though I've belted you and flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,...
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
Rudyard Kipling - Gunga Din (both parts identified by nefertiti)
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9
The hues of youth upon a brow of woe,
Which Man deemed old two thousand years ago.
Match me such marvel save in Eastern clime,...
A rose-red city half as old as time. (identified by nefertiti)
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10
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!...
William Wordswoth - My Heart Leaps Up (also known as The Rainbow) (identified by Ibn Pickthall)
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1
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the...
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
TS Eliot - The Hollow Men (both parts identified by ToastBasedKillah with a bonus to Carlo Ginzburg for precision)
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2
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable hour:-...
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Thomas Gray - Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard (both parts identified by nefertiti)
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3
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou sayst,...
Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats - Ode on a Grecian Urn (both parts identified by Ibn Pickthall)
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4
And though that he were worthy, he was wys,
And of his port as meeke as is a mayde.
He nevere yet no vileynye ne sayde
In al his lyf unto no maner wight...
He was a verray, parfit, gentil knyght. (identified by nefertiti)
Geoffrey Chaucer - The General Prologue to the Canterbury tales (identified by Purves Grundy)
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5
Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought...
And not waving but drowning. (identified by Purves Grundy)
Stevie Smith - Not Waving But Drowning (identified by nefertiti)
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6
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;...
Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all (identified by Ibn Pickthall)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Lost Love from In Memoriam (identified by Ginger Yellow)
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7
Why, if 'tis dancing you would be,
There's brisker pipes than poetry.
Say, for what were hop-yards meant,
Or why was Burton built on Trent?
Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,...
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man. (identified by nefertiti)
AE Houseman - Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff from A Shropshire Lad (identified by Carlo Ginzburg)
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8
Though I've belted you and flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,...
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
Rudyard Kipling - Gunga Din (both parts identified by nefertiti)
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9
The hues of youth upon a brow of woe,
Which Man deemed old two thousand years ago.
Match me such marvel save in Eastern clime,...
A rose-red city half as old as time. (identified by nefertiti)
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10
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!...
William Wordswoth - My Heart Leaps Up (also known as The Rainbow) (identified by Ibn Pickthall)
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