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

A Valentine

Matilda Betham-Edwards (1836–1919)

WHAT shall I send my love to-day,

When all the woods attune to love,

And I would show the lark and dove

That I can love as well as they?…

I’ll send a kiss, for that would be

The quickest sent, the lightest borne;

And well I know to-morrow morn

She’ll send it back again to me.

Go, happy winds! ah, do not stay

Enamour’d of my lady’s cheek,

But hasten home, and I’ll bespeak

Your services another day!