Oh Fair Enough Are Sky And Plain

Text by A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad Song Collection

"Oh Fair Enough Are Sky And Plain" is a song by Beverly Benjamin Cole. It is the fifth 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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Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
But I know fairer far:
Those are as beautiful again
That in the water are;

The pools and rivers wash so clean
The trees and clouds and air,
The like on earth was never seen,
And oh that I were there.

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