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STEPHEN PHILLIPS

1864-1915

897                                             The Apparition

MY dead Love came to me, and said:
   ‘God gives me one hour’s rest
To spend upon the earth with thee:
   How shall we spend it best?’

‘Why, as of old,’ I said, and so
   We quarrell’d as of old.
But when I turn’d to make my peace
   That one short hour was told.

 

 

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