A Shropshire Lad XXVI by A.E. Housman in 2014

  • May 20, 2014, 3:50 a.m.
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  • Along the fields as we came by
  • A year ago, my love and I,
  • The aspen over stile and stone
  • Was talking to itself alone.
  • 'Oh who are these that kiss and pass?
  • A country lover and his lass;
  • Two lovers looking to be wed;
  • And time shall put them both to bed,
  • But she shall lie with earth above,
  • And he beside another love.

  • And sure enough beneath the tree
  • There walks another love with me,
  • And overhead the aspen heaves
  • its rainy-sounding silver leaves;
  • And I spell nothing in their stir,
  • But now perhaps they speak to her,
  • And plain for her to understand
  • They talk about a time at hand
  • When I shall sleep with clover clad,
  • And she beside another lad

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