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A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 52 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN

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First Line: FAR IN A WESTERN BROOKLAND
Last Line: ABOUT THE GLIMMERING WEIRS.
Subject(s): ENGLAND; ENGLISH;

Far in a western brookland
That bred me long ago
The poplars stand and tremble
By pools I used to know.

There, in the windless night-time,
The wanderer, marvelling-why,
Halts on the bridge to hearken
How soft the poplars sigh.

He hears: no more remembered
In fields where I was known,
Here I lie down in London
And turn to rest alone.

There, by the starlit fences,
The wanderer halts and hears
My soul that lingers sighing
About the glimmering weirs.




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