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Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXVI

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Along the fields as we came by     A year ago, my love and I,     The aspen over stile and stone     Was talking to itself alone.     "Oh who are these that kiss and pass?     A country lover and his lass;     Two lovers looking to be wed;     And time shall put them both to bed,     But she shall lie with earth above,     And he beside another love."     And sure enough beneath the tree     There walks another love with me,     And overhead the aspen heaves     Its rainy-sounding silver leaves;     And I spell nothing in their stir,     But now perhaps they speak to her,     And plain for her to understand     They talk about a time at hand     When I shall sleep with clover clad,     And she beside another lad.

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