Name: Loveliest of Trees
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Description: Another famous and relatively cheerful poem by Housman, here set to the traditional dance tune known as 'The Rose Tree'. Though even here he can't resist referring to the shortness of his own three-score-and-ten lifespan.

Loveliest of Trees

from So Sound You Sleep (More Tears of Morning) by David A. Harley

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Another famous and relatively cheerful poem by Housman, here set to the traditional dance tune known as 'The Rose Tree'. Though even here he can't resist referring to the shortness of his own three-score-and-ten lifespan.

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A Shropshire Lad II

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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from So Sound You Sleep (More Tears of Morning), released February 8, 2023
Guitar and vocal by David A. Harley. Words by A.E. Housman, melody traditional.

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David A. Harley England, UK

David Harley is a former professional musician, administrator, IT security editor, author and researcher, and former much else that is even less impressive. He now lives in Cornwall. More info at whealalice.com