"And set you at your threshold down/ Townsman of a stiller town." "So set, before its echoes fade,/ The fleet foot on the sill of shade." "And early though the laurel grows/ It withers quicker than th
"And set you at your threshold down/ Townsman of a stiller town." "So set, before its echoes fade,/ The fleet foot on the sill of shade." "And early though the laurel grows/ It withers quicker than the rose." For ten points, from what A.E. Houseman poem were these lines taken, bemoaning the premature demise of an athlete?
"And set you at your threshold down/ Townsman of a stiller town."
{“To an Athlete Dying Young”}