COMPLETE [Weekly Poetry] The night is freezing fast by A. E. Housman - dl

Post by **aradlaw** » November 17th, 2019, 8:14 pm

The night is freezing fast by A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936).

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Alfred Edward Housman, usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.
Housman was one of the foremost classicists of his age and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars who ever lived. ( Wikipedia)

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The night is freezing fast by A. E. Housman, read for LibriVox.org by [your name].
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The night is freezing fast,
To-morrow comes December;
And winterfalls of old
Are with me from the past;
And chiefly I remember
How Dick would hate the cold.

Fall, winter, fall; for he,
Prompt hand and headpiece clever,
Has woven a winter robe,
And made of earth and sea
His overcoat for ever,
And wears the turning globe.

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