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GHAZELES: 2 by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES

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First Line: THERE ARE FEW TO WHOM, EXPIRING, I WOULD SAY, FORGET ME NOT?
Last Line: IN THE FREE-WILL OF THY JUSTICE -- FATHER -- THOU -- FORGET ME NOT!
THERE are few to whom, expiring, I would say, Forget me not?
The busy world, the many-minded, -- why should it forget me not?
I have never worn its honours, never won its open shame,
Never bent before it, never wooed it to forget me not;
But if e'er my hand has wakened grateful hearts to yearn to mine,
If I ever earned kind friendship, let those friends forget me not.
And for Her who was and is my soul of soul -- my life of life --
'Twould be wicked doubt to ask it -- Leila will forget me not.
Then mayst @3thou@1 of all remembrance -- thou whose knowledge only sleeps
In the free-will of thy justice -- Father -- thou -- forget me not!



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