Possess, as I possessed a season,

       The countries I resign,

    Where over elmy plains the highway

       Would mount the hills and shine,

    And full of shade the pillared forest

       Would murmur and be mine.

 

A. E. Housman, Last Poems, 40     

I do not mind how many biographies of him are brought out, so that they are accurate and kindly.

 

Katharine E. Symons, sister to A. E. Housman from a letter to Cyril Clemens, 29 October 1936, now among the Housman collection in the Library of Columbia University, New York