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ONE-SIDED TROTH by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES

Poet Analysis

First Line: IT IS NOT FOR WHAT HE WOULD BE TO ME NOW
Last Line: HAD HE ONLY DIED ERE HE BROKE THE BOND.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;
IT is not for what He would be to me now,
If he still were here, that I mourn him so:
It is for the thought of a broken vow,
And for what he was to me long ago.

Strange, while he lived and moved upon earth,
Though I would not, and could not, have seen him again,
His being to me had an infinite worth,
And the void of his loss is an infinite pain.

I had but to utter his name, and my youth
Rose up in my soul, and my blood grew warm;
And I hardly remembered the broken truth,
And I wholly remembered the ancient charm.

I watched the' unfolding scenes of his life,
From' the lonely retreat where my heart reposed;
'Twas a magical drama -- a fabulous strife;
Now' the curtain has fallen, the volume is closed.

The sense of my very self grows dim,
With nothing but Self either here or beyond;
That Self which would have been lost in him,
Had he only died ere he broke the bond.



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