The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900 - Hemingway's List for a Young Writer (1934)

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Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of Lytton. 1831-1892

795. The Last Wish

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32 words

SINCE all that I can ever do for thee
Is to do nothing, this my prayer must be:
That thou mayst never guess nor ever see
The all-endured this nothing-done costs me.

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