A. E. Housman. 1859– |
33. "Loveliest of Trees" |
LOVELIEST of trees, the cherry now | |
Is hung with bloom along the bough, | |
And stands about the woodland ride | |
Wearing white for Eastertide. | |
Now, of my threescore years and ten, | 5 |
Twenty will not come again, | |
And take from seventy springs a score, | |
It only leaves me fifty more. | |
And since to look at things in bloom | |
Fifty springs are little room, | 10 |
About the woodlands I will go | |
To see the cherry hung with snow. from http://www.bartleby.com/103/33.html ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [in Just-]
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
it's
spring
and
the
goat-footed
balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee
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