Regret

Richard Le Gallienne

1866 to 1947

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