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Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920.

Stephen Phillips1868–1915

A Dream

MY dead love came to me, and said:

‘God gives me one hour’s rest,

To spend with thee on earth again:

How shall we spend it best?’

‘Why, as of old,’ I said; and so

We quarrelled, as of old:

But, when I turned to make my peace,

That one short hour was told.