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Who wrote this - anyone know?

Into my heart on 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.

Posted - February 4, 2018
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  • 1502
    A.E. Housman, as a Google search confirms.
      February 4, 2018 11:15 AM MST
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  • 423
    I think he was hoping there was someone within 2000 miles sufficiently educated to not have to cheat. I guess this broadcast doesn't reach Europe except when conditions are exceptionally propitious.
      February 4, 2018 11:29 AM MST
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  • 1502
    You might have noticed my use of the word "confirms."

    I wouldn't have used Google to double-check if we were involved in a quiz of some sort, and, for that matter, English is my third language.
      February 4, 2018 11:35 AM MST
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  • 7280
    Or cared---within those 2000 miles.
      February 4, 2018 4:17 PM MST
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  • 22891
    have no idea
      February 4, 2018 2:58 PM MST
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  • Sorry, I drew a blank on both poems.
    It would take more of a search than I have time for, but you could try trawling the war poets.
      February 4, 2018 3:40 PM MST
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