“Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.”

— A.E. Housman , book A Shropshire Lad

No. 40.
Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896)

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English classical scholar and poet 1859–1936

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