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Original parish has older collection of poems (1,10,3)

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I believe the answer is:

a shropshire lad

'collection of poems' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'original parish has older' is the wordplay.
'original' indicates an anagram.
'parish'+'has'+'older'='parishhasolder'
'parishhasolder' with letters rearranged gives 'A SHROPSHIRE LAD'.

(Other definitions for a shropshire lad that I've seen before include "poetry book" , "collection of lines" , "collection of poems" , "A. E. Housman cycle" , "work of poet" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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