"From my own kind I only learn How foolish comfort is"
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"Comfort", in The Song of Life and Other Poems (1920)
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William Henry Davies
William Henry Davies (3 July 1871 β 26 September 1940) was a Welsh poet and writer. He spent many years as a tramp in the United States and United Kingdom but became known as one of the most popular poets of his time. He was admired by George Bernard Shaw, who wrote the preface of his autobiography, The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1908).
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