English poem
Poem 206 (And then you needs must die—ah,…)
by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907)
And then you needs must die—ah, well! I knew you not, you loved not me. 'Twas not because that darkness fell, You saw not what there was to see. But I that saw and could not tell— O evil Angel, set me free!
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