Love

An Autobiography

by Ernest Rhys 1859–1946

From The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1912)

Love

Wales England wed; so I was bred. 'Twas merry
London gave me breath.
I dreamt of love, and fame: I strove. But Ireland
taught me love was best:
And Irish eyes, and London cries, and streams of Wales
may tell the rest.
What more than these I ask'd of Life I am content to
have from Death.

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