“Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge,
Gold that I never see;
Lie long, high snowdrifts in the hedge
That will not shower on me.”

—  A.E. Housman , book A Shropshire Lad

No. 39, st. 3.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

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