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A. E. Housman Quotes: Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
         

Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.


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