I have seen flowers come in stony places/ And kind things done by men with ugly faces/ And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,/ So I trust too.

John Masefield

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John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer. He was Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967, during which time he lived at Burcot, Oxfordshire, near Abingdon-on-Thames. Among his best known works are the children's novels The Midnight Folk...

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