Give me a land of boughs in leaf, A land of trees that stand Where trees are fallen there is grief I love no leafless land.
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And sharp the link of life will snap,And dead on air will stand
Heels that held up as straight a chap
As treads upon the land.
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Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide.
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The man that runs away Lives to die another day.
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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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He stood, and heard the steeple Sprinkle the quarters on the morning town.
A. E. Housman
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