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3 score years and ten?

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Leg of lamb | 22:12 Wed 29th Jan 2003 | Arts & Literature
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What poem/story do these lines come from - 'Of these 3 score years and 10, 20 will not come again'?
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"Now, of my three score years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy years a score,
It only leaves me fifty more."

This is from'Loveliest of Trees' by A.E.Houseman, Bromsgrove's favourite son. See, amongst others,
http://www.housman-society.co.uk/

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