2007
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
Composed by 
Bob Scher
Bob Scher Text by 
A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman Five Songs from “A Shropshire Lad” Song Collection
"Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now" is the third song of Bob Scher's Five Songs from "A Shropshire Lad". The song cycle sets the poetry of A. E. Housman.
Text
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
by A. E. Housman
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
Related Information
Bob Scher Official Website
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*”Is My Team Ploughing?” (“Five Songs from “A Shropshire Lad””)
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