Regret

Richard Le Gallienne

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1866 to 1947

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To have held the bird,
To die.
One asked of regret,
And I made reply:
To have one only hope—
Through a slothful eye;
And cast it by;
And let it fly;
And lost it
To have plucked the flower
For a moment nigh,
To have seen the star

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