| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Farewell | | By John Addington Symonds (1840–1893) |
| | | IT is buried and done with, | |
| The love that we knew: | |
| Those cobwebs we spun with | |
| Are beaded with dew. | |
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| I loved thee; I leave thee: | 5 |
| To love thee was pain: | |
| I dare not believe thee | |
| To love thee again. | |
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| Like spectres unshriven | |
| Are the years that I lost; | 10 |
| To thee they were given | |
| Without count of cost. | |
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| I cannot revive them | |
| By penance or prayer; | |
| Hell’s tempest must drive them | 15 |
| Thro’ turbulent air. | |
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| Farewell, and forget me; | |
| For I too am free | |
| From the shame that beset me, | |
| The sorrow of thee. | 20 | | | |
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