A.E. HOUSMAN 1859-1936

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A SHROPSHIRE LAD  (1896)

II

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,

          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,

          About the woodlands I will go

          To see the cherry hung with snow.

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