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William Ernest Henley (1849 – 1903)


English poet, critic and editor.
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William Ernest Henley
Far in the stillness a cat
Languishes loudly. A cinder
Falls, and the shadows
Lurch to the leap of the flame.
Henley quotes
East and west and north, wherever the battle grew,
As men to a feast we fared, the work of the Will to do.
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