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.