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1859–1936

XXVI.

Alfred Edward Housman

The half-moon westers low, my love, And the wind brings up the rain; And wide apart lie we, my love, And seas between the twain.

I know not if it rains, my love, In the land where you do lie; And oh, so sound you sleep, my love, You know no more than I.

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