Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.
CadgwithLionel Johnson (18671902)
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In vain I watch’d for sleep to visit me;
How should sleep dull mine ears, and dim my sight,
Who saw the stars, and listen’d to the sea?
If, without sea, and starless though it be,
For joy of the majestic beauty there,
Men shall not miss the stars, nor mourn the sea.