Regret
Richard Le Gallienne
1866 to 1947
Track 1
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One asked of regret,
And I made reply:
To held the bird,
And let it fly;
To have the star
For a moment nigh,
And lost it
a slothful eye;
To have plucked the flower
And it by;
To have one only hope—
To die.