The Mind
It May Be
From A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1895)
The Mind
It may be we shall know in the hereafter
Why we, begetting hopes, give birth to fears,
And why the world's too beautiful for laughter,
Too gross for tears.
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Addleshaw, Percy. “It May Be.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/addleshaw/2/.
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Addleshaw, Percy. “It May Be.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/addleshaw/2/.
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