Taken from A. E. Housman’s first, and best-known, collection, A Shropshire Lad (1896), ‘You Smile upon your friend to-day’ is a short lyric in which the ‘lad’ of the collection’s title, who was originally named Terence Hearsay, You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover’s say, And […]
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