English poem
To a Lady, X
by A. Cleveland Coxe (1818–1896)
Bear with me, while in sooth I tell How mine own eye was purged, to see A strange and awful miracle, The haunted deep of Destiny. Ah me, I know the story well! And I was once as blithe as ye; But one whose soul hath been in Hell, Ev’n in a dream, must sadden’d be.