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A. E. Housman (1859–1936).  A Shropshire Lad.  1896.

LIX. The star-filled seas are smooth to-night

The Isle of Portland

THE STAR-FILLED seas are smooth to-night   From France to England strown; Black towers above the Portland light   The felon-quarried stone.   On yonder island, not to rise,         5   Never to stir forth free, Far from his folk a dead lad lies   That once was friends with me.   Lie you easy, dream you light,   And sleep you fast for aye;         10 And luckier may you find the night   Than ever you found the day.

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