In Cornwall and Across the Sea With Poems Written in Devonshire. By Douglas B. W. Sladen |
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TOO LATE.
Whom has it not befallen at a ballThat some shy maid, he did not note till late
And briefly danced with, should by some ill fate
Be she who most attracted him of all:
And so in friendships will it oft befall:
Some one for weeks has been your constant mate,
In day-walks and night-talks inseparate,
In all you minded, sympathetical,
And yet the closing link of sympathy
To make the two ends of your bond to meet
Your vigilance has cheated, till well nigh
Your intercourse's season has passed by;
And then you see how passingly more sweet
This intercourse had been, if thus complete.
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