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SHE'S ME FORGOT by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

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First Line: ME WHO HAVE SAILED
Last Line: SHE'S THEE FORGOT!

Me who have sailed
Leagues across
Foam haunted
By the albatross,
Time now hath made
Remembered not:
Ay, my dear love
Hath me forgot.

Oh, how should she,
Whose beauty shone,
Keep true to one
Such long years gone?
Grief cloud those eyes! --
I ask it not:
Content am I --
She's me forgot.

Here where the evening
Ooboe wails,
Bemocking
England's nightingales,
Bravely, O sailor,
Take thy lot;
Nor grieve too much,
She's thee forgot!



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