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LIV. [With rue my heart is laden]

by A. E. Housman, 1896

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.

Published in A Shropshire Lad
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