| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Edith and Harold | | By Arthur Gray Butler (1831–1909) |
| | | I KNOW it will not ease the smart; | |
| I know it will increase the pain; | |
| ’Tis torture to a wounded heart; | |
| Yet, O! to see him once again. | |
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| Tho’ other lips be press’d to his, | 5 |
| And other arms about him twine, | |
| And tho’ another reign in bliss | |
| In that true heart that once was mine; | |
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| Yet, O! I cry it in my grief, | |
| I cry it blindly in my pain, | 10 |
| I know it will not bring relief, | |
| Yet O! to see him once again. | | | | |
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