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Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916.

‘O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me’

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)

From ‘In Memoriam’

O SORROW, wilt thou live with me

No casual mistress, but a wife,

My bosom-friend and half of life;

As I confess it needs must be;

O Sorrow, wilt thou rule my blood,

Be sometimes lovely like a bride,

And put thy harsher moods aside,

If thou wilt have me wise and good….