The still-defended (*)  challenge cup" and it ends with the couplet, "And find unwithered on its curls /
The opening two words "Smart lad" in this poem's third quatrain are both stressed, breaking the otherwise iambic tetrameter of the poem. This poem's penultimate quatrain advises "So set, before its echoes fade, / The fleet foot on the sill of shade." Earlier, the poet contrasts two different occasions when the title figure is carried shoulder-high. The speaker of this poem commands the listener to "hold to the low lintel up / The still-defended (*)  challenge cup" and it ends with the couplet, "And find unwithered on its curls / The garland briefer than a girl's." It begins by remembering "The time you won your town the race." Published in the collection  A Shropshire Lad,  for 10 points, name this A. E. Housman poem about a recently deceased running champion.
The opening two words "Smart lad" in this poem's third quatrain are both stressed, breaking the otherwise iambic tetrameter of the poem.
" To An Athlete Dying Young "