With Rue My Heart is Laden

"With Rue My Heart is Laden" is a song set by Bruce Forsythe to text by A.E. Housman.

Text: A. E. Housman

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    With Rue my heart is laden

    For golden friends I had

    For many a rose-lipt maiden

    And many a light-foot lad

    In brooks too wide for leaping

    The light-foot boys are laid

    The rose-lipt girls are sleeping

    In fields where lives fade.

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