Twice A Week The Winter Thorough

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Title:     Twice A Week The Winter Thorough
Author: A. E. Housman [More Titles by Housman]

Twice a week the winter thorough
Here stood I to keep the goal:
Football then was fighting sorrow
For the young man's soul.

Now in May time to the wicket
Out I march with bat and pad:
See the son of grief at cricket
Trying to be glad.

Try I will; no harm in trying:
Wonder 'tis how little mirth
Keeps the bones of man from lying
On the bed of earth.

[The end]
A. E. Housman's poem: Twice A Week The Winter Thorough

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