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First Line: Into my heart an air that kills
Last Line: And cannot come again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Variant Title(s): Yon Far Country
Subject(s): Loss; Mourning; Time; Bereavement


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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