| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | Song: ‘They who may tell love’s wistful tale’ | | By Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) |
| | | THEY 1 who may tell love’s wistful tale, | |
| Of half its cares are lighten’d; | |
| Their bark is tacking to the gale, | |
| The sever’d cloud is brighten’d. | |
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| Love, like the silent stream, is found | 5 |
| Beneath the willows lurking, | |
| The deeper, that it hath no sound | |
| To tell its ceaseless working. | |
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| Submit, my heart; thy lot is cast, | |
| I feel its inward token; | 10 |
| I feel this misery will not last, | |
| Yet last till thou art broken. | |
| | | Note 1. From The Phantom, a Musical Drama, act. i, sc. 4. [back] | | |
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