Regret

Richard Le Gallienne

1866 to 1947

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To have seen the star
To have one only hope—
And lost it
And cast it by;
For a moment nigh,
To have held the bird,
And I made reply:
One asked of regret,
To die.
And let it fly;
To have plucked the flower
Through a slothful eye;