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A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 40 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN

Poet Analysis

First Line: INTO MY HEART AN AIR THAT KILLS
Last Line: AND CANNOT COME AGAIN.
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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