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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. IV. The Nineteenth Century: Wordsworth to Rossetti

Joanna Baillie (1762–1851)

Song: ‘They who may tell love’s wistful tale’

THEY who may tell love’s wistful tale

Of half its cares are lightened;

Their bark is tacking to the gale,

The severed cloud is brightened.

Love like the silent stream is found

Beneath the willows lurking,

The deeper that it hath no sound

To tell its ceaseless working.

Submit, my heart; thy lot is cast,

I feel its inward token;

I feel this misery will not last,

Yet last till thou art broken.