Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
A.E.Housman
1859 to 1936
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with ______ along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
______ white for Eastertide.
Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy ______ a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
And ______ to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are ______ room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see ______ cherry hung with snow.
Loveliest of trees, the cherry ______
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands ______ the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now, of ______ threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
______ take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves ______ fifty more.
And since to look at things in ______
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I ______ go
To see the cherry hung with snow.