Ah, Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
Alfred Tennyson
Love
Ah, Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
Alfred Tennyson
Maud. Part ii. iv. Stanza 3.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.