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486 - Others, I am not the first (2009)

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Lyrics from part XXX of "A Shropshire Lad."
by: A. E. Husman 1887

"Others, I am not the first"

XXX

Others, I am not the first,
Have willed more mischief than they durst:
If in the breathless night I too
Shiver now, 'tis nothing new.

More than I, if truth were told,
Have stood and sweated hot and cold,
And through their reins in ice and fire
Fear contended with desire.

Agued once like me were they,
(But) I like them shall win my way
Lastly to the bed of mould
Where there's neither heat nor cold.

(But) from my grave across my brow
Plays no wind of healing now,
(And) fire and ice within me fight
Beneath the suffocating night.

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