Quotation for Thursday 14th May 2020

Hi everyone,

I've got a poem for today's quotation.

I've always had a love of poetry and this morning whilst reading some during my first cuppa of the day, I came across a poem which I especially like.

I was reading from 'Poems on the Underground', which is, in my opinion, the most inspired idea ever. If you don't use the 'Tube' in London, you mightn't have come across these poems, but for the last 30 years or so, they can be seen posted up in the carriages of the trains and I always look for the next one, whenever I travel in London. Over the years they have brought my attention to poets and poems I'd never heard of before and since the advent of mobile phones, its been my habit to take a photo and investigate the poet at home later. And of course collections of them are published too.

This though, is from a very well known poet, A E Houseman and comes from his collection of poems 'The Shropshire Lad'. Whilst reading it today, I suddenly realised how relevant this is to our current situation.

"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 hope that one day we will find happy highways again, but I can't help but ponder if they will ever be the same highways we used before?

Take care everyone and continue to stay safe.

(Photo: Tobias Tullius, Unsplash.com)