I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky.
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Original Citation
Wilde, Oscar [Published as C.3.3.]. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. London: Leonard Smithers, 1898, pt. 1, st. 3.
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Current Citation
Wilde, Oscar. "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.
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