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The speaker of a poem in this collection bemoans the “happy highways where I went (10[1])/ And cannot come again” after (10[1])invoking a “land of lost content” (10[2])(“cun-TENT”). In another poem in this collection, a character commands “noisy bells” (10[1])to “be dumb” after his lover dies as snow falls on Bredon Hill. (10[2])A tree in this collection “stands (10[1])about the woodland ride / Wearing white for Eastertide.” (10[4]-5[1])A speaker (10[1])in this collection ignores (10[1])the advice of a “wise man” (10[1])who says “Give pearls away (10[1])and rubies (10[1])/ But keep your fancy (10[2])free.” (10[1]-5[2])The nostalgic poems “1887” and “Loveliest (10[1])of trees, the cherry now” (10[1])open this (10[1])1919 collection, which drew on its author’s childhood (10[1])in a West Midlands county. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[4])“When I Was One-and-Twenty” (10[2])appears (10[2])in what (10[2])debut collection by A. E. (10[1])Housman? (10[2])■END■ (10[9])

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