| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 2093 |
| AUTHOR: | Alfred Edward Housman (18591936) |
| QUOTATION: | Into my heart an 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | A. E. HOUSMAN, Into my heart an air that kills, A Shropshire Lad, verse 40, p. 72 (1932). |
| SUBJECTS: | Youth |
| WORKS: | A. E. Housman Collection | | |
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