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When We Two Walked

by Edward Thomas

WHEN we two walked in Lent

We imagined that happiness

Was something different

And this was something less.

But happy were we to hide

Our happiness, not as they were

Who acted in their pride

Juno and Jupiter:

For the Gods in their jealousy

Murdered that wife and man,

And we that were wise live free

To recall our happiness then.

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