Loveliest of trees, the cherry now by A. E. Housman
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now by A. E. Housman

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now by A. E. Housman

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The certainty of death, the shortness of life: it exhorts us to strive to see the beauty of all around us, not just when the world is in bloom, but even when it is winter and all is covered in snow. Our pressing need makes even the dark times beautiful.

This extraordinary little miniature reminds u...

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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Annotated

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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

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