“Oh, when I was in love with you
Then I was clean and brave,
And miles around the wonder grew
How well did I behave.

And now the fancy passes by
And nothing will remain,
And miles around they'll say that I
Am quite myself again.”

—  A.E. Housman , book A Shropshire Lad

No. 18.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

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