John Masefield Quotes, Truth Quotes, Men Quotes

Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.

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And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth.

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But he has gone, A nation's memory and veneration, Among the radiant, ever venturing on, Somewhere, with morning, as such spirits will.

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It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, 3 hours in a seasick steamer, & after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak 3 times, & then be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

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The Lord who gave us Earth and Heaven Takes that as thanks for all He's given. The book he lent is given back All blotted red and smutted black.

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Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French.

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Lord, give to me who are old and rougher The things that little children suffer, And let keep bright and undefiled The young years of the little child.

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His face was filled with broken commandments.

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So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body lies, Part of the island till the planet ends, My gentle comrade, beautiful and wise, Part of this crag this bitter surge offends, While I, who pass, a little obscure thing, War with this force, and breathe, and am its king.

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All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.

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The days that make us happy make us wise

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To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

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Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.

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God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.

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When Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go.

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And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.

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I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.

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My road leads me seawards To the white dipping sails.

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Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky, Earth's jest a dusty road.

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All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

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