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TO THE MARQUIS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA

IX.

But ere he left your fatal shore,

⁠And lay on that funereal boat,
⁠Dying, 'Unspeakable' he wrote
'Their kindness,' and he wrote no more;

X.

And sacred is the latest word;

⁠And now the Was[errata 1], the Might-have-been,
⁠And those lone rites I have not seen,
And one drear sound I have not heard,

XI.

Are dreams that scarce will let me be,

⁠Not there to bid my boy farewell,
⁠When That within the coffin fell
Fell and flash'd into the Red Sea,

Errata

  1. ↑ Original: The was was amended to the Was: detail
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