Versos English Edwin Arlington Robinson We lack the courage to be where we are: --

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We lack the courage to be where we are: --

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We love too much to travel on old roads, To triumph on old fields; we love too much To consecrate the magic of dead things, And yieldingly to linger by long walls Of ruin, where the ruinous moonlight That sheds a lying glory on old stones Befriends us with a wizard's enmity.