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

An Autobiography

Ernest Rhys (1859–1946)

WALES England wed; so I was bred. ’Twas merry London gave me breath.

I dreamt of love, and fame: I strove. But Ireland taught me love was best:

And Irish eyes, and London cries, and streams of Wales may tell the rest.

What more than these I ask’d of Life I am content to have from Death.