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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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Shropshire from the Staffordshire Border

[Description: Watercolor illustration by William Hyde of Shropshire from the Staffordshire border. Perspective looks out over the town from atop a hill, trees dot the scene.]

Westward on the high-hilled plains
Where for me the world began,
Still, I think, in newer veins
Frets the changeless blood of man.
Now that other lads than I
Strip to bathe on Severn shore,
They, no help, for all they try,
Tread the mill I trod before.
There, when hueless is the west
And the darkness hushes wide,
Where the lad lies down to rest
Stands the troubled dream beside.
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There, on thoughts that once were mine,
Day looks down the eastern steep,
And the youth at morning shine
Makes the vow he will not keep.
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