Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are …

A. E. Housman
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Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. ✨ A Shropshire Lad no. 40, l. 5 (1896)
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Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. ✨ A Shropshire Lad no. 40, l. 5 (1896)

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