Shropshire Lad XI "On your Midnight Pallet Lying" - Written by A.E. Housman, read by SJN Bauhart.

Poetry reading - Poem: Reaper, mortality, carpe diem, depression.

A Shropshire Lad XI - "On Your Midnight Pallet Lying."

On your midnight pallet lying
Listen, and undo the door:
Lads that waste the light in sighing
In the dark should sigh no more;
Night should ease a lover's sorrow;
Therefore, since I go to-morrow;
Pity me before.

In the land to which I travel,
The far dwelling, let me say-
Once, if here the couch is gravel,
In a kinder bed I lay,
And the breast the darnel smothers
Rested once upon another's
When it was not clay.

- Written by A.E. Housman, read by Stephen Bauhart
- Music from Pixabay, by Oleksii Kaplunsky, "Beautiful Piano"