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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

Percy Addleshaw b 186–

It May Be

IT may be we shall know in the hereafter

Why we, begetting hopes, give birth to fears,

And why the world’s too beautiful for laughter,

Too gross for tears.