Loveliest of Trees The Cherry Now E-book

                                      1896 

                       LOVELIEST OF TREES, THE CHERRY NOW
                            (From A Shropshire Lad)

                            by Alfred Edward Housman







Electronically Enhanced Text (c) Copyright 1996, World Library(R)



     LOVELIEST OF TREES, THE CHERRY NOW
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              Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
              Is hung with bloom along the bough,
              And stands about the woodland ride
              Wearing white for Eastertide.
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              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.
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              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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                             THE END