Good Creatures Do You Love Your Lives by Alfred Edward Housman

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Good creatures, do you love your lives
And have you ears for sense?
Here is a knife like other knives,
That cost me eighteen pence.

I need but stick it in my heart
And down will come the sky,
And earth's foundations will depart
And all you folk will die.

More from Alfred Edward Housman:

• The Carpenter’s Son
• Along The Field As We Came By
• Be Still, My Soul, Be Still
• Here Dead We Lie
• To An Athlete Dying Young
• With Rue My Heart Is Laden