Song
Alexander Stuart
Strahan (also Strachan)
Strahan, Alexander Stuart
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University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the public domain
Poem signed A. Strachan.
The Dark Blue
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I askèd of the pallid moon,
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Song
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I askèd of the pallid moon,
Whether my love would love me soon ;
I askèd of the sapphire star,
Whether from love she still were far.
I askèd of the violet,
Whether she would not love me yet ;
And of the pansy’s yellow quill,
If she would be unheeding still.
Alas ! they all replied to me
‘ She loves not thee ! she loves not thee !’
I askèd of the fickle wind,
Whether she still would be unkind ;
I askèd of the flowing river,
If she would love me never, never.
I asked the woods in green array,
If she would always say me
nay ;
I asked the happy sky above,
If she would never, never love.
Alas ! they all replied to me
‘ She loves not thee ! she loves not thee !’
Then said I to the pallid moon,
‘ I’ll love her neither late nor soon ; ’
Then said I to the sapphire star,
‘ I care not if her love be far.’
Pansy I told and violet,
She might, for I should quite forget;
And fickle wind and flowing river,
That I would love her never, never.
I told green woods and sky above,
To tell her I would never love,
To thank her for so much disdain
As had me eased of so much pain.
A. Strachan
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