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My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.

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You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.

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Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

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It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.

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The heart of standing is you cannot fly.

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Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.

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Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: September 27th, 1906

Died: April 15th, 1984

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