Alfred Edward Housman (Альфред Эдвард Хаусман (Хаусмен))

A Shropshire Lad. 17. Twice a Week the Winter Thorough

Twice a week the winter thorough
   Here stood I to keep the goal:
Football then was fighting sorrow
   For the young man's soul.

Now in Maytime to the wicket
   Out I march with bat and pad:
See the son of grief at cricket
   Trying to be glad.

Try I will; no harm in trying:
   Wonder 'tis how little mirth
Keeps the bones of man from lying
   On the bed of earth. 

1. Last Poems. 22. The Sloe Was Lost in Flower
2. More Poems. 12. I Promise Nothing: Friends Will Part
3. More Poems. 18. Delight it Is in Youth and May
4. More Poems. 11. The Rainy Pleiads Wester
5. More Poems. 29. From the Wash the Laundress Sends

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