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Jack Cornstalk as a Lover

by Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson

"For he rides hard to dull the pain,
Who rides from him who loves him best;
But he rides slowly home again,
Whose restless heart must rove for rest.




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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

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