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

The Last Wish

E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton (Owen Meredith) (1831–1891)

SINCE all that I can ever do for thee

Is to do nothing, this my prayer must be:

That thou mayst never guess nor ever see

The all-endured this nothing-done costs me.