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A Shropshire Lad

  
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Far in a Western Brookland
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THE RECRUIT
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REVEILLE
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TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG
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BREDON HILL
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THE WELSH MARCHES
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THE LENT LILY
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THE NEW MISTRESS
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THE MERRY GUIDE
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THE IMMORTAL PART
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THE CARPENTER'S SON
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THE TRUE LOVER
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THE DAY OF BATTLE
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THE ISLE OF PORTLAND
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HUGHLEY STEEPLE
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Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
But I know fairer far:
Those are as beautiful again
That in the water are;
The pools and rivers wash so clean
The trees and clouds and air,
The like on earth has never seen,
And oh that I were there.
These are the thoughts I often think
As I stand gazing down
In act upon the cressy brink
To strip and dive and drown;
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But in the golden-sanded brooks
And azure meres I spy
A silly lad that longs and looks
And wishes he were I.
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