• To-day, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high, we bring you home, And set you at your threshold down, Townsman of a stiller town.

  Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 2

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

1. shoulder-high
2. threshold
3. townsman
4. stiller

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To-day, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high, we bring you home, And set you at your threshold down, Townsman of a stiller town. by : A. E. Housman

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