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English Poetry III: From Tennyson to Whitman.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

Edward, Earl of Lytton

692. The Last Wish

SINCE all that I can ever do for thee

Is to do nothing, this my prayer must be:

That thou mayst never guess nor ever see

The all-endured this nothing-done costs me.