"Hi! handsome hunting man Fire your little gun.……" — Walter de La Mare
"Hi! handsome hunting man Fire your little gun. Bang! Now the animal is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again, Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh, what fun!"
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Walter de La Mare
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24 Quotes by Walter de La Mare
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Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
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When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in…
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As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me.
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Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour
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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected…
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The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the…
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As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind.
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His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of…
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Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So…
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