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From their folded mates they wander far,
   Their ways seem harsh and wild;
They follow the beck of a baleful star,
   Their paths are dream-beguiled.
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We are the toilers from whom God barred
   The gifts that are good to hold.
We meant full well and we tried full hard,
   And our failures were manifold.
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The moon's ashine; by many a lane
Walk wistful lovers to and fro;
It must be like old days again;
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Weighed down by grief, o'erborne by deep despair,
She lifted up white arms to heaven and prayed
That day for death; she made a mighty prayer
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Women there are on earth, most sweet and high,
Who lose their own, and walk bereft and lonely,
Loving that one lost heart untl they die,
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How often in the summer-tide,
His graver business set aside,
Has stripling Will, the thoughtful-eyed,
As to the pipe of Pan,
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Black Sheep

From their folded mates they wander far,
   Their ways seem harsh and wild;
They follow the beck of a baleful star,
   Their paths are dream-beguiled.

Yet haply they sought but a wider range,
   Some loftier mountain-slope,
And little recked of the country strange
   Beyond the gates of hope.

And haply a bell with a luring call
   Summoned their feet to tread
Midst the cruel rocks, where the deep pitfall
   And the lurking snare are spread.

Maybe, in spite of their tameless days
   Of outcast liberty,
They're sick at heart for the homely ways
   Where their gathered brothers be.

And oft at night, when the plains fall dark
   And the hills loom large and dim,
For the Shepherd's voice they mutely hark,
   And their souls go out to him.

Meanwhile, "Black sheep! Black sheep!" we cry,
   Safe in the inner fold;
And maybe they hear, and wonder why,
   And marvel, out in the cold.

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Richard Burton is now my epitaph, my cross, my title, my image. I have achieved a kind of diabolical fame. It has nothing to do with my talents as an actor. That counts for little now. I am the diabolically famous Richard Burton.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

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