| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | XXXI. Tender Memory
‘O to recall!’ | | By Stephen Phillips (1868–1915) |
| | | O TO recall! | |
| What to recall? | |
| All the roses under snow? | |
| Not these. | |
| Stars that toward the water go? | 5 |
| Not these. | |
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| O to recall! | |
| What to recall? | |
| All the greenness after rain? | |
| Not this. | 10 |
| Joy that gleameth after pain? | |
| Not this. | |
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| O to recall! | |
| What to recall? | |
| Not the greenness nor delight, | 15 |
| Not these; | |
| Not the roses out of sight, | |
| Not these. | |
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| O to recall! | |
| What to recall? | 20 |
| Not the star in waters red, | |
| Not this: | |
| Laughter of a girl that ’s dead, | |
| O this! | | | | |
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