Retrospect
Retrospect
Original Text
The Poems of Arthur Conan Doyle (John Murray, 1928): 220. 21473.35.1 Widener Library Harvard University
1There is a better thing, dear heart,
2 Than youthful flush or girlish grace.
3There is the faith that never fails,
4 The courage in the danger place,
5The duty seen, and duty done,
6 The heart that yearns for all in need,
7The lady soul which could not stoop
8 To selfish thought or lowly deed.
9All that we ever dreamed, dear wife,
10 Seems drab and common by the truth,
11The sweet sad mellow things of life
12 Are more than golden dreams of youth.
Publication Notes
Collected Poems (London: John Murray, 1922). See Harold Locke, A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Tunbridge Wells: D. Webster, 1928): 71.
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
2005
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