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WHAT can he ail I hear them ask	A
And what can make his cheek so pale	B
Ah that to answer were a task	A
For which no effort could avail	B
To say I love were but to say	C
What many another might as well	D
Who never felt the cruel sway	C
Which makes my heart with sorrow swell	D
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Dear are the pains of love and sweet	E
Yet he who loves and loves in vain	F
Endures a torment more complete	E
Than any love unsweetened pain	F
Nay keener than the savage fangs	G
Which limb from limb their victim tear	H
And much more cruel are the pangs	G
Which drive a lover to despair	H
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With feelings racked without a spark	I
Of hope to give those feelings rest	J
The darksome grave is not so dark	I
As is the chaos in his breast	J
The brightest hour that comes and goes	K
Might just as well be dull as bright	L
His grief o'er all a shadow throws	K
That hides the splendour from his sight	L
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Unmoved he eyes the sun arise	M
Yea doth without a thrill behold	N
The sun down go at ev'ning tho'	O
He settles in a sea of gold	N
The sweetest flower of field or bower	P
The brightest star by night revealed	Q
To him's not rare nor sweet nor fair	H
For him no joyous beam can yield	Q
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The tempest swells and roars and yells	R
Up tears and heaves to earth the oak	S
The death bolts crash the lightnings flash	T
And cities wrap in flame and smoke	S
Let thunder crash and lightnings flash	T
And bid him perish as they can	U
The storm he hears no death dart bears	V
Like that which makes his life a ban	U
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O'er all he sees o'er all he hears	W
The raven shades of woe are cast	X
And all his hopes delights and fears	Y
Are now but phantoms of the past	X
The past the present future ay	C
To all he's dead and cold except	Z
The worm that eats the heart away	C
Wherein Peace long her vigils kept	Z
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He wanders wide of human haunts	A2
What others do he little reeks	B2
Their very sympathy or taunts	A2
Can little soothe can little vex	C2
Where e'er he moves where e'er he turns	D2
One but one image meets his ken	E2
For that he yearns and pines and mourns	F2
And yearns and mourns for that in vain	F
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Away away with questions which	G2
No mortal yet could answer nay	C
My pangs are far beyond the pitch	G2
Of seraph tongue or pen to say	C
To speak of love were but to speak	H2
Of what another might whose heart	I2
Was never forced like mine to break	J2
Yet while it breaks to hide the smart	I2

Joseph Skipsey

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