• Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.

  Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 12, st. 4

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

1. bridegroom
2. through
3. sleep
4. night
5. never
6. turns

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Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride. by : A. E. Housman

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