| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | XV. Protest
From ‘The Princess’ | | By Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
| | | ASK me no more: the moon may draw the sea; | |
| The cloud may stoop from heaven and take the shape | |
| With fold to fold, of mountain or of cape; | |
| But O too fond, when have I answer’d thee? | |
| Ask me no more. | 5 |
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| Ask me no more: what answer should I give? | |
| I love not hollow cheek or faded eye: | |
| Yet, O my friend, I will not have thee die! | |
| Ask me no more, lest I should bid thee live; | |
| Ask me no more. | 10 |
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| Ask me no more: thy fate and mine are seal’d: | |
| I strove against the stream and all in vain: | |
| Let the great river take me to the main: | |
| No more, dear love, for at a touch I yield; | |
| Ask me no more. | 15 | | | |
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