REFUSED !
" Not yours the fault," yousay—nstyours? — You women keep some bitter cures For our proud spirits. How I long To think you have not done me wrong. Believe me, this is half my pain To feel I cannot give aaain Respect and trust, which were your due When I believed you wholly true ! The words of love you said one day, " You meant the next day to unsay. And if I thought of them— what then 1 I must be fooled like other men; Must learn to woo id not to win ; That women's falsehoods are not sin; Mast bear what other hearts have borne j" I give you, lady, scorn for scorn ! It was for love I vainly sued ! It was a worna* that I wooed ! Not something in*a woman's guise, To niake my trusting heart a prize— Rejoice to feel me in her power — Play with her new toy for an hour, Then fling it down, with cruel jest, And mocking scorn, at my request ! No ! it was something kind and true I fancied that I saw in you ! , Before a high ideal shrine I laid this honest love of mine. I woke to find that shrine a dreamThat maideas are not what they seem. Henceforth, I, too, will share their mirth, And take their love for what it's worth ! • ' F.S.M.
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Otago Witness, Issue 658, 9 July 1864, Page 20
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223REFUSED! Otago Witness, Issue 658, 9 July 1864, Page 20
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