Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England

His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.