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Addison, Joseph. "Monday, June 23, 1712." The Spectator, 1712, no. 412.

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McCrae, John. "In Flanders Fields." Punch, 8 Dec. 1915.

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Addison, Joseph. The Spectator. London, 10 Sept. 1711, no. 166.

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Shakespeare, William. King Lear. King's Men, 26 Dec. 1606, Palace of Whitehall, Westminster, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Tragedy of King Lear." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 1.

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Flatman, Thomas. "The Defiance." Poems and Songs. London: Benjamin Tooke, 1674.

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Wolfe, Humbert. "Autumn (Resignation)." Poems. Selections. Ernest Benn Ltd, 1926, st. 2.

And the sun sank again on the grand Australian bush-the nurse and tutor of eccentric minds, the home of the weird, and of much that is different from things in other lands.

Henry Lawson

The Bush Undertaker

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Lawson, Henry. "The Bush Undertaker." The Antipodean, 1892.

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Lawson, Henry. "The Bush Undertaker." The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories. Penguin Books, 1986.

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Moore, Thomas. "Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms." A Selection of Irish Melodies. London: J. Power's, 1808.

The Past is like a funeral gone by
The Future comes like an unwelcomed guest.

Edmund Gosse

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Gosse, Edmund. "May-Day." On Viol and Flute. London: Henry S. King, 1873.

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Graves, Robert. "The Case for Xanthippe." The Crane Bag. Cassell & Company, 1969.

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Owen, Wilfred. "Anthem for Doomed Youth." Poems. Chatto & Windus, 1920.

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Owen, Wilfred. "Anthem for Doomed Youth." The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen. Random House UK, 2018.

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Service, Robert W. "Michael." Ballads of a Bohemian. Barse & Hopkins/T. Fisher Unwin, 1921, I. 31.

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Gent, George Wither. Fair Virtue, The Mistress of Phil'arete. London: John Grismand, 1622, sonnet 4, st. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. Henry VI, Part 1. Lord Strange's Men, 1592, Rose Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "The First Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

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Waller, Edmund. "On the Foregoing Divine Poems." Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham. Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1857.

I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary.

Philip Levine

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Levine, Philip. "The Unwritten Biography." Interviewed by Edward Hirsch. Poets.org, 29 Aug. 2001, poets.org/text/unwritten-biography-philip-levine-and-edward-hirsch-conversation.

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Davis, Thomas. Literary and Historical Essays. New York: P.M. Haverty, 1879, pt. 3.

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Smith, Stevie. "The Past." Not Waving but Drowning. Andre Deutsch, 1957, I. 1.

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Goldsmith, Oliver. "Letter VII." The Citizen of the World; or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher. Dublin: George and Alex. Ewing, 1762. Originally published in The Public Ledger, Jan. 1760 - Aug. 1761.

I know my soul hath power to know all things,
Yet is she blind and ignorant in all:
I know I'm one of Nature's little kings,
Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.

Sir John Davies

Of Human Knowledge

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Davies, John, Sir. Nosce Teipsum. 1599, st. 44.