• We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.

  A. E. Housman
  British poet 1859-1936
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. blackguard
2. emptiness
3. whatever
4. hopeful
5. cursed
6. plans

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We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. by : A. E. Housman

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