| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Seven Years | | By Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of Crewe (1858–1945) |
| | | TO join the ages they have gone, | |
| Those seven years,— | |
| Receding as the months roll on; | |
| Yet very oft my fancy hears | |
| Your voice,—’twas music to my ears | 5 |
| Those seven years. | |
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| Scant the shadow and high the sun | |
| Those seven years; | |
| Can hearts be one, then ours were one, | |
| One for laughter and one for tears, | 10 |
| Knit together in hopes and fears, | |
| Those seven years. | |
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| How, perchance, do they seem to you, | |
| Those seven years, | |
| Spirit-free in the wider blue? | 15 |
| When Time in Eternity disappears, | |
| What if all you have learn’d but the more endears | |
| Those seven years? | | | | |
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