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Today’s Poem: Simple Is Hard

Today’s Poem: Simple Is Hard

Two short verses by A.E. Housman

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Edvard Munch, Cherry Tree in Blossom, 1905 (Wikimedia)

With Rue My Heart Is Laden

by A.E. Housman

With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfoot lad.

By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.

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