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A WIFE.
A wife sat thoughtfully turning over A book inscribed with the school-girl's * name; . A tear—-one tear—fell hot on the cover She quickly closed when her husband came. ' .' He came, and he went away—it was nothing— With cold, calm words upon either side; But, just at the sound of the room door shutting, A dreadful door in her soul stood wide. Love she had read of in sweet romances— Love that could sorrow, but never fail, Built her own palace of noble fancies, All the wide world one fairy tale. Bleak and bitter, and utterly doleful,^" Spreads to this woman her mop of Hfc; Hour after hour the looks in her soul, full Of deep dismay and turbulent strife. Face in both hands she knelt on the carpet; The black-clotd loosen'd, the storm-rain fell; Oh! life has so much to wilder and warp it— One poor heart's day what poet could tell ? — Owe a Week.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3452, 17 January 1880, Page 1
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158Select Poetry. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3452, 17 January 1880, Page 1
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