one of my favourite lines of poetry is from Houseman’s Shropshire Lad
That is the land of lost content
I see it shining plain
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again
it is memorable
but it is my opinion
that it should have read
That is the land of lost content
I see it shining plain
The happy highways where once I went
And cannot come again
this has troubled me for a number of years
just one word
once
quite why the poet did not feel
the music of this line
is open to question
I often discuss this with Harry as we construct
Blue Motion Lamps in our red workshop
In Greenford