With rue my heart is laden <br />For golden friends I had, <br />For many a rose-lipt maiden <br />And many a lightfoot lad. <br /> <br />By brooks too broad for leaping <br />The lightfoot boys are laid; <br />The rose-lipt girls are sleeping <br />In fields where roses fade.<br /><br />Alfred Edward Housman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/with-rue-my-heart-is-laden/