Showing posts with label housman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label housman. Show all posts

18 Apr 2026

The nature of time

Our brains have limited size and to most people time is a mystery. Certainly my experience is that time passes faster as we get older. Some believe in some sort of life carrying on after we die. I remain agnostic. 

It would be great to be able to experience again some of the good things in our lives. This brings to mind the famous poem called "A Shropshire Lad" by A.E. Housman.

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.

I think this was written overseas, knowing the beloved country of his birth would not be seen again, except in memory.

20 Jun 2025

Blue Remembered Hills - NOT amateur radio


“A Shropshire Lad XL” is one of the most profound poems ever written in the English language. 
It speaks of our continual struggle to find memories of times past that can never ever be experienced again.