I first heard the phrase when I watched Dennis Potter's play of that name on 
TV. My introduction to both Potter and Housman.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/tvandradioblog/2008/jun/05/tvblogbypeterbradshaw



> On 20 Oct 2019, at 02:47, Subash Jeyan <pdml.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> thanks Bob, appreciated. 'blue remembered hills", i have to use that
> phrase somewhere :) seriously, the poem intrigued me with its air of
> melancholy, i had to look up ae housman. an interesting life...
> 
> thanks to all those who looked and commented....
> 
> 
> On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 20:33:47 +0100
> Bob Pdml <pdm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Very nice indeed.
>> 
>> As A E Housman wrote,
>> 
>> "Into my heart an air that kills
>> From yon far country blows:
>> What are those blue remembered hills,
>> What spires, what farms are those?
>> 
>> That is the land of lost content,
>> I see it shining plain,
>> The happy highways where I went
>> And cannot come again"
>> 
>> 
>>> On 19 Oct 2019, at 04:01, Subash Jeyan <pdml.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> https://web.500px.com/photo/1004698223/layers-of-blue-by-Subash-Jeyan/
> 
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