Versos English Alice Meynell Rose Aylmer

English poem

Rose Aylmer

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AH, what avails the sceptred race, Ah, what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine.

Rose Aylmer, whom these watchful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.