Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 2093 |
| AUTHOR: | Alfred Edward Housman (1859–1936) |
| QUOTATION: | Into my heart an 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | A. E. HOUSMAN,“Into my heart an air that kills,” A Shropshire Lad, verse 40, p. 72 (1932). |
| SUBJECTS: | Youth |