“The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also…” — John Masefield

“The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.”

A hopeful reflection on endings as possible beginnings · Prose writing, commonly attributed

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About John Masefield

1 June 1878–12 May 1967

John Edward Masefield was born on 1 June 1878 in Ledbury, Herefordshire, a market town on the borderlands of England and Wales, and died on 12 May 1967 at Abingdon, then in Berkshire. During his long life he became one of Britain’s most recognizable poets: a writer of sailors, fields, foxhunts, village sinners, mythic…

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