Twice a week the winter thorough

Twice a week the winter thorough
  Here stood I to keep the goal:
Football then was fighting sorrow
  For the young man's soul.

Now in Maytime to the wicket
  Out I march with bat and pad:
See the son of grief at cricket
  Trying to be glad.

Try I will; no harm in trying:
  Wonder 'tis how little mirth
Keeps the bones of man from lying
  On the bed of earth.

by Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) , no title, from A Shropshire Lad, no. 17, published 1896

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (1933-) , "Twice a week the winter thorough", c1933.
by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) , "Twice a week", published 1926 [baritone, string quartet, and piano], from The Western Playland, no. 4.
by John Ireland (1879-1962) , "Goal and wicket", published 1921 [voice and piano], from The Land of Lost Content, no. 3.
by Charles Turner (1921-) , "In Youth and May", published <<1969. [medium voice and piano]

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