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Married! her end of walks knee-deep in the ferny dells, - End of the year-long dreams that swam in in her girlish brain, And the glad wild hope that danced in the maw of the wedding bells— • Married, the end of all, and the end a hungry pain! For the man, the god she wed, undreflt from his bright deceit, Or the' haze which her fresh young heart rolled up in the moon of love, Turned out - the god—a liar, and all that he seemed a cheat, And out from his breast she flew, a mate* less and nestles* dove. The miser who finds his wealth is gone like shaken rose, • The moiher who bears her son, her only son, is dead, Each knows - each, knows a grief, yet not so darkly knows, • As the wedded hand that finds the heart i estill unwed. To be tied with chains for age to a thing you | mnst despise, Chains of iron washed with a varnish of 1 wedding gold, In front of selfish lips, and the glitter of trnthless eyes— ; This is a thing to be felt, but not a thing .to be told. Wade Robinson. London Society.
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Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5197, 12 September 1885, Page 1
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199Select Poetry. Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5197, 12 September 1885, Page 1
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