Томас Гарди (Харди) (Thomas Hardy)

One Ralph Blossom Soliloquizes

When I am in hell or some such place,
A-groaning over my sorry case,
What will those seven women say to me
Who, when I coaxed them, answered ‘Aye’ to me?

‘I did not understand your sign!’
Will be the words of Caroline;
While Jane will cry, ‘If I’d had proof of you,
I should have learnt to hold aloof of you!’

‘I won’t reproach: it was to be!’
Will dryly murmur Cicely;
And Rosa: ‘I feel no hostility,
For I must own I lent facility.’

Lizzy says: ‘Sharp was my regret,
And sometimes it is now! But yet
I joy that, though it brought notoriousness,
I knew Love once and all its gloriousness!’

Says Patience: ‘Why are we apart?
Small harm did you, my poor Sweet Heart!
A manchild born, now tall and beautiful,
Was worth the ache of days undutiful.’

And Anne cries: ‘O the time was fair,
So wherefore should you burn down there?
There is a deed under the sun, my Love,
And that was ours. What’s done is done, my Love.
These trumpets here in Heaven are dumb to me
With you away. Dear, come, O come to me!’

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