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A Shropshire Lad (1887)
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The gale, it plies the saplings double,
It blows so hard, 'twill soon be gone:
To-day the Roman and his trouble
Are ashes under Uricon.
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His folly has not fellow
Beneath the blue of day
That gives to man or woman
His heart and soul away.
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Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
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And bound for the same bourn as I,
On every road I wandered by,
Trod beside me, close and dear,
The beautiful and death-struck year.
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A. E. Housman
Born:
March 26, 1859
Died:
April 30, 1936
(aged 77)
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