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The Harvard Classics › Vol. 42

Poems

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Earl of Lytton

p. 1119

Edward, Earl of Lytton

[1831-1892]

692 the Last Wish

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