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A. E. Housman (1859–1936). A Shropshire Lad. 1896.

XVI. It nods and curtseys and recovers

IT nods and curtseys and recovers

When the wind blows above,

The nettle on the graves of lovers

That hanged themselves for love.

The nettle nods, the winds blows over,

The man, he does not move,

The lover of the grave, the lover

That hanged himself for love.