The Night Mail and Other Poems

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And still I laugh’d, and did not fear

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But that, whene’er was pass’d away

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The childish time, some happier play

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My womanhood would cheer.

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I knew the time would pass away;

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And yet, beside the rose-tree wall,

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Dear God, how seldom, if at all,

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Did I look up to pray!

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The time is past: and now that grows

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The cypress high among the trees,

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And I behold white sepulchres

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As well as the white rose,—

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When wiser, meeker thoughts are given,

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And I have learnt to lift my face,

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Reminded how earth’s greenest place