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1860–1943

TO A LADY,

Charles George Douglas Roberts

This supreme song of him who dreamed All beauty, and whose heart foreknew The anguish of vain longing, seemed To breathe new mystery, breathed by you.

As if the rapture of the night, Moon-tranced, and passion-still, were stirred To some undreamed divine delight By sudden singing of a bird!

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