Friday, June 28, 2013

Some can gaze and not be sick, 
But I could never learn the trick. 
There's this to say for blood and breath, 
They give a man a taste for death. 
--A.E. Housman


2 comments:

Katie said...

Perhaps a taste OF death, but not sure it gives a taste FOR death.

Katie said...

p.s. I prefer
"The grave's a fine and private place
But none I think do there embrace."
Andrew Marvell