• 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.

  Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 2, st. 2-3

  A. E. Housman
  British poet 1859-1936
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. threescore
2. woodlands
3. springs
4. leaves
5. things
6. little

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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. by : A. E. Housman

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