[Poems by Wilde in] Richard Henry Wilde | ||
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Lord of the false fond ceaseless spell
That mocks the heart, the eye the ear:—
In human bosoms dost thou dwell
Self-exiled from thy native sphere,
Or is the human mind thy cell
Of torment?—to inflict and bear
Thy doom?—the doom of all who fell.
[Poems by Wilde in] Richard Henry Wilde | ||