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Friday, September 20, 2013

In Fields Where Roses Fade



Gordon Lightfoot: 1972




with rue my heart is laden
for golden friends i had,
for many a rose-lipt maiden
and many a lightfoot lad.

by brooks too broad for leaping
the lightfoot boys are laid;
the rose-lipt girls are sleeping
in fields where roses fade.

--a.e. housman

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