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The Two Highwaymen

I

NG have had a quarrel set with

Because he robb'd me.

Every day of

Was wrested from me after bitter strife:

I never yet could see the sun go

But I was angry in my heart, nor

The leaves fall in the wind without a

Over the dying summer.

I have

No truce with Time nor Time's accomplice,

Death.  The fair world is the witness of a

Repeated every hour.

For life and

Are sweet to all who live; and

The voices of these robbers of the

Sound in each ear and chill the passer-by.—What have we done to thee, thou monstrous Time?

What have we done to Death that we must die?

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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (17 August 1840[1] – 10 September 1922[2]), sometimes spelled Wilfred, was an English poet and writer. He and his wife, Lad…

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