Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918.
By Blanche Edith Baughan127 . The Greatest Gift
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Pain I’d pursue, and struggle to be sad.
If of us two one only might be great,
Safely obscure I’d triumph in my fate.
O Soul more dear than mine! if of us two
One only might love God, it should be you.