| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 12501900. |
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| Walter Savage Landor. 17751864 |
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| 558. Rose Aylmer |
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| AH, what avails the sceptred race! | |
| Ah, what the form divine! | |
| What every virtue, every grace! | |
| Rose Aylmer, all were thine. | |
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| Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes | 5 |
| May weep, but never see, | |
| A night of memories and sighs | |
| I consecrate to thee. | |
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