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Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

A Memory

William Allingham (1824–1889)

FOUR ducks on a pond,

A grass-bank beyond,

A blue sky of spring,

White clouds on the wing:

What a little thing

To remember for years—

To remember with tears!