| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Before and After |
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| AH! long ago since I or thou | |
| Glanced past these moorlands brow to brow, | |
| Our mixed hair streaming down the wind— | |
| So fleet! so sweet! | |
| I loved thy footsteps more than thou | 5 |
| Loved my whole soul or body through— | |
| So sweet! so fleet! ere Fate outgrew the days wherein Life sinned! | |
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| And ah! the deep steep days of shame, | |
| Whose dread hopes shrivelled ere they came, | |
| Or vanished down Love ’s nameless void— | 10 |
| So dread! so dead! | |
| Dread hope stripped dead from each soul’s shame, | |
| Soulless alike for praise or blame— | |
| Too dead to dread the eternities whose heaven its shame destroyed. | |
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