| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | XXXII. Visions
‘If she but knew’ | | By Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy (1844–1881) |
| | | IF she but knew that I am weeping | |
| Still for her sake, | |
| That love and sorrow grow with keeping | |
| Till they must break | |
| My heart that breaking will adore her, | 5 |
| Be hers and die; | |
| If she might hear me once implore her, | |
| Would she not sigh? | |
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| If she did but know that it would save me | |
| Her voice to hear, | 10 |
| Saying she pitied me, forgave me, | |
| Must she forbear? | |
| If she were told that I was dying, | |
| Would she be dumb? | |
| Could she content herself with sighing? | 15 |
| Would she not come? | | | | |
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