If The Past Year Offered Me Again

	If The Past Year Were Offered Me Again by Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852 - 1932) If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure with the pain Or dare to wish that we had never met? Ah! could I bear those happy hours to miss When love began, unthought of and unspoke That summer day when by a sudden kiss We knew each other's secret and awoke? Ah no! not even to escape the pain, Debate and anguish that I underwent Flying from thee and my own self in vain With trouble wasted, till my strength all spent I knew at last that thou or love or fate Had conquered and repentance was too late I love this poem featured in The Infernal Devices - Clockwork Princess Chapter 7 Poem Check out my review on CP2.