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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. IV. The Nineteenth Century: Wordsworth to Rossetti

Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

‘You smiled, you spoke’

YOU smiled, you spoke, and I believed,

By every word and smile deceived.

Another man would hope no more—

Nor hope I what I hoped before:

But let not this last wish be vain,

Deceive—deceive me once again!