Originally Posted By: salopian
'land of lost content' refers to a museum in Craven Arms that is a collection of bygone artifacts preserved for all to relive their childhood or to see how Grandma lived.


A museum? Tut tut, salopian! Even though my question was rhetorical (and meant to be a bit cheeky), let us give credit where credit is due:

Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows.
What are those blue remember'd 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.

A. E. Housman


Housman certainly pre-dated the Craven Arms museum. Could it be that a true 'salopian' doesn't know these lines from A Shropshire Lad?


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