The Last Wish

By Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of Lytton

1831-1892


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.

DayPoems Poem No. 743
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