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First Line: AH, COULD I BUT BE UNDERSTOOD!'
Last Line: AND CARE NO MORE FOR ME.
Subject(s): LOVE – UNREQUITED;

"AH, could I but be understood!"
(I prayed the powers above),
"Could but some spirit, bright and good,
Know me, and, knowing, love!"

One summer's day there came to pass --
A maid; and it befell
She spied and knew me: yea, alas!
She knew me all too well.

Gray were the eyes of Rosamund,
And I could see them see
Through and through me, and beyond,
And care no more for me.



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