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First Line: When all my words were said
Last Line: And be forgotten too.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


When all my words were said,
When all my songs were sung,
I thought to pass among
The unforgotten dead.

A Queen of ruth to reign
With her, who gathereth tears
From all the lands and years,
The Lesbian maid of pain;

That lovers, when they wove
The double myrtle-wreath,
Should sigh with mingled breath
Beneath the wings of Love:

'How piteous were her wrongs,
Her words were falling dew,
All pleasant verse she knew,
But not the Song of songs.

Yet not, O Love, that you
Have kissed my forehead, I
Have sung indeed, can die,
And be forgotten too.





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