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

Elena’s Song

Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886)

QUOTH tongue of neither maid nor wife

To heart of neither wife nor maid—

Lead we not here a jolly life

Betwixt the shine and shade?

Quoth heart of neither maid nor wife

To tongue of neither wife nor maid—

Thou wagg’st, but I am worn with strife,

And feel like flowers that fade.