Charles Hamilton Sorley

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    Strew your gladness on earth’s bed,
    So be merry, so be dead.
    —Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915)

    None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
    —Edith Hamilton (1867–1963)

    All the hills and vales along
    Earth is bursting into song,
    And the singers are the chaps
    Who are going to die perhaps.
    —Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915)