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EXILE by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

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First Line: HAD THE GODS LOVED ME I HAD LAIN
Last Line: ACHES WITH THEIR MEMORY.
Had the gods loved me I had lain
Where darnel is, and thorn,
And the wild night-bird's nightlong strain
Trembles in boughs forlorn.

Nay, but they loved me not; and I
Must needs a stranger be,
Whose every exiled day gone by
Aches with their memory.



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