With rue my heart is laden

A.E.Housman

1859 to 1936

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With rue my heart is laden
 For golden I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
 And a lightfoot lad.

By brooks too broad for leaping
 The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are
 In fields where roses fade.