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Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

Two Songs from the Sanskrit: I. Apprehension

Douglas Ainslie (b. 1838)

BEFORE that my loved one

Has come within sight,

Run quickly and tell him:

‘She ’s angry to-night,

Your darling’—run quickly,

For ah! if I see

That ill-behaved dear one,

I know how ’twill be:

My face will grow smiling,

Though struggling with tears—

He is so beguiling,

That dearest of dears.