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A Collection of Poems. By Ernest Radford

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EVER AND A DAY

He murmured, ‘Love, for ever!’
She whispered, ‘and a day?’
And I, whose pain ends never,
Saw her stand in her bride's array,
And knew that her love was for ever,
And his false love for a day.