| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Le Roi est Mort | | By Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (Robinson-Darmesteter) (1857–1944) |
| | | AND shall I weep that Love ’s no more, | |
| And magnify his reign? | |
| Sure never mortal man before | |
| Would have his grief again. | |
| Farewell the long-continued ache, | 5 |
| The days a-dream, the nights awake, | |
| I will rejoice and merry make, | |
| And never more complain. | |
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| King Love is dead and gone for aye, | |
| Who ruled with might and main, | 10 |
| For with a bitter word one day, | |
| I found my tyrant slain: | |
| And he in Heathenesse was bred, | |
| Nor ever was baptized, ’tis said, | |
| Nor is of any creed, and dead | 15 |
| Can never rise again. | | | | |
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