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6. Maud Muller By Whittier

Reply to mia (Original post)

Mon May 8, 2017, 02:11 AM

May 2017

even if just for a few closing verses...

"Then she took up her burden of life again,
Saying only, "It might have been."

Alas for maiden, alas for Judge,
For rich repiner and household drudge!

God pity them both! and pity us all,
Who vainly the dreams of youth recall.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"

Ah, well! for us all some sweet hope lies
Deeply buried from human eyes..."

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