Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.
Three Songs from ‘Maud’, IIIAlfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
O
After long grief and pain
To find the arms of my true love
Round me once again!…
Not thou, but like to thee:
Ah, Christ! that it were possible
For one short hour to see
The souls we loved, that they might tell us
What and where they be!