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Quotes from Ballads and Poems — John Masefield

1878–1967 England

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What have I done, or tried, or said
In thanks to that dear woman dead?
Men triumph over women still,
Men trample women's rights at will,
And man's lust roves the world untamed.
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O grave, keep shut lest I be shamed.

Ballads and Poems (1910)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Masefield (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.