Poetry Oh, Had I known.
lJ had thought so soon she would have di«d, ■He said, I had been tenderer in ray speech, iJiad a moment lingered at her aide, yAnd held her ere she passed beyond my reaoh, 11 1 had thought so soon she would hay died. She day she looked up with her startled eyes, 6 Like some hurt creature where the woods ■•<* are deep ; With kisses I had stifled those breaking sighs, With kisses closed those eyelids into sleep, That day she looked up with her startled eye?, Oh, had I known she would have diedj so fioon, Love had not wasted on a barren land, Love like those rivers under torrid noon Lost on the desert, poured out on the sand — Oh had I known she would have died so 1 ' —Harriet Pretcott Spolfonl in the Bazaar.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2027, 4 July 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)
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142Poetry Oh, Had I known. Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2027, 4 July 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)
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