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

‘Were I a King’

Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford (1550–1604)

WERE I a King, I might command content;

Were I obscure, unknown should be my cares;

And were I dead, no thoughts should me torment,—

Nor words, nor wrongs, nor love, nor hate, nor fears!

A doubtful choice for me, of three things, one to crave:

A Kingdom, or a Cottage, or a Grave!