Rondeau. - It Might Have Been.
It might have been so different a year To what has been; the summer's guileless play Not all a jest, comes back to me to-day In added sweetness, and provokes a tear. Strange pictures rise, pass on, and disappear. Drawn from your tender words of yesterday When, looking in my eyes in the old way You told me of your life, how passing dear It might have been. Useless to dream, more useless to regret! We might have lived and loved, nor lost the glow Of Love's first sweet intensity; - to let These foolish fancies die I strive, - and yet I still must count it happiness to know It might have been.
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"It might have been so different a year..."
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