The poems of Owen Meredith (Honble Robert Lytton.) Selected and revised by the author. Copyright edition. In two volumes |
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DIVIDED LIVES.
O lives beloved, wherein mine once did live,Thinking your thoughts, and walking in your ways,
On your dear presence pasturing all my days,
In pleasantness, and peace; whose moods did give
The measure to mine own! how vainly strive
Poor Fancy's fingers, numb'd by time, to raise
This vail of woven years, that from my gaze
To hide what now you are doth still contrive!
Dear lives, I marvel if to you yet clings
Of mine some colour; and my heart then feels
Much like the ghost of one who died too young
To be remember'd well, that sometimes steals
A family of unsad friends among
Sighing, and hears them talk of other things.
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