Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis…

A. E. Housman
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Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night. ✨ A. E. Housman (2013). Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated), p.67, Delphi Classics
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