Originally published as Lyric XIX, the title character is described by the narrator as "townsman of 
Originally published as Lyric XIX, the title character is described by the narrator as "townsman of a stiller town". The first and second stanzas show contrastingly different images of the subject coming back home, though both are "shoulder-high". The narrator declares that the title character is lucky to be in his condition, as "early though the laurel grows/ it withers quicker than the rose". FTP, name this work from A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, about a young runner who meets his end early.
Originally published as Lyric XIX, the title character is described by the narrator as "townsman of a stiller town".
“To an {Athlete Dying Young”}