If It Chance Your Eye Offend You

"If It Chance Your Eye Offend You" is a song by Beverly Benjamin Cole. It is the fourth in a set of eleven poems from A. E. Housman's "A Shropshire Lad".

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Composer: Beverly Benjamin ColeText: A. E. HousmanSong Collection: A Shropshire Lad

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If it chance your eye offend you,
Pluck it out, lad, and be sound:
‘Twill hurt, but here are salves to friend you,
And many a balsam grows on ground.

And if your hand or foot offend you,
Cut it off, lad, and be whole;
But play the man, stand up and end you,
When your sickness is your soul.

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