A. E. Housman, "Into my heart an air that kills", A Shropshire Lad, verse 40, p. 72 (1932)
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Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.
— A. E. Housman on Youth
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again." in the context of "A. E. Housman, "Into my heart an air that kills", A Shropshire Lad, verse 40, p. 72 (1932)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Youth" (Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989))
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About A. E. Housman
Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A.E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.
About A. E. Housman
Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A.E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.
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