Poem 40 from A Shropshire Lad (Into My Heart)
by AE Housman (1859 – 1936)

Into my heart on air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

First aired: 24 November 2009

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