“Fifty springs are little room…”

It’s certainly spring. These were taken at the Veteran’s Memorial Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I shared them with my father and he shared a poem he recalled from his childhood.

 

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A Shropshire Lad 2: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
By A. E. Housman
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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