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A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 39 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN

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First Line: TIS TIME, I THINK, BY WENLOCK TOWN
Last Line: THAT WILL NOT SHOWER ON ME.
'Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town
The golden broom should blow;
The hawthorn sprinkled up and down
Should charge the land with snow.

Spring will not wait the loiterer's time
Who keeps so long away;
So others wear the broom and climb
The hedgerows heaped with may.

Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge,
Gold that I never see;
Lie long, high snowdrifts in the hedge
That will not shower on me.




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