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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Miss Barrett

  • “Yes!” I answered you last night;
  • “No!” this morning, Sir, I say!
  • Colours seen by candle-light
  • Will not look the same by day.
  • And we talk’d—oh, how we talk’d! her voice so cadenc’d in the talking,
  • Made another singing—of the soul! a music without bars—
  • While the leafy sounds of woodlands, humming round where we were walking,
  • Brought interposition worthy—sweet,—as skies about the stars,
  • And she spake such good thoughts natural, as if she always thought them.
  • By your truth she shall be true—
  • Ever true as wives of yore—
  • And her Yes, once said to you,
  • Shall be yes for evermore.
  • In your patience ye are strong.