Love
XL
From A Shropshire Lad
Love
Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
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Housman, A. E. “XL.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/housman/39/.
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Housman, A. E. “XL.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/housman/39/.
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