Into My Heart An Air That Kills

Text by A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad Song Collection

"Into My Heart An Air That Kills" is a song by Beverly Benjamin Cole. It is the second in a set of eleven poems from A. E. Housman's "A Shropshire Lad". If interested in sheet music, please email jackmor@umich.edu

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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.

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Sheet Music

A Shropshire Lad

Beverly Benjamin Cole
With Rue My Heart Is Laden, Into My Heart An Air That Kills, If Truth In Hearts That Perish, If It Chance Your Eye Offend You, Oh, Fair Enough Are Sky And Plain, Say Lad, Have You Things To Do, Be Still, My Soul (#7), Be Still, My Soul (#8), Oh, When I Was In Love With You, Look Not In My Eyes, From Far, From Eve and Morning
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