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| Peter Trower and Rosa 'A Shropshire Lad' 30 July 2025 |
With rue my heart is laden – A.E. Housman
With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfoot lad.
By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.
When today I saw 8 open and 2 buds of my English Rose Rosa ‘A Shropshire Lad’ I had an idea. I have mentioned before how my now gone poet friend Peter Trower introduced me to his fave UK writer A.E. Housman. He would quote to me passages from several poems in Housman’s A Shropshire Lad.
I cannot look at the blooms of this rose without hearing Trower’s voice or seeing his kind smile.
The idea that came to me was to scan the roses with one of my printed portraits of Trower. Unfortunately I have been printing lots and my inkjet paper box was empty. What was I to do?
The problem was resolved nicely by my printing an inkjet portrait on inkjet transparency.
Voilá here is the result!