Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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AND ARE WE STRANGERS?
And are we strangers now
We that have loved so long?
Must I forget Love's vow
That trembled from thy tongue?
We that have loved so long?
Must I forget Love's vow
That trembled from thy tongue?
And must we severed dwell,
In loneliness and gloom,
We that have loved so well,
Each in a separate tomb?
In loneliness and gloom,
We that have loved so well,
Each in a separate tomb?
For, Oh! this Earth so fair,
Shall seem to us to be,
In our long and dark despair—
One grave—for thee and me.
Shall seem to us to be,
In our long and dark despair—
One grave—for thee and me.
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I cannot say farewell,
I will not speak that word;
But in my Soul doth dwell
That thought—a lightning-sword!
I will not speak that word;
But in my Soul doth dwell
That thought—a lightning-sword!
We must be strangers now,
We that have loved so long—
Farewell Love's gentle vow
And sigh more sweet than song.
We that have loved so long—
Farewell Love's gentle vow
And sigh more sweet than song.
We must now severed dwell
In solitude and gloom;
We that have loved so well,
Each in a separate Tomb!
In solitude and gloom;
We that have loved so well,
Each in a separate Tomb!
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