ON THE PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN ABOUT TO BE HANGED.
Fair and capable one of cur race, Posing there in your gown of grace, Plain yet becoming; Could subtlest breast liver have guessed TVhat was behind that innocent face, Drumming, drumming! "Would that you Causer, ere knell your knell Por this riot of passion, might deign to tell Why, since It made you Good in the germ, It sent a worm To madden Its handiwork, when It might well Not have assayed you. Not have implanted, to your deep rue, The Clytaemnestra spirit in ycu, And with purblind vision Sowed a tare In a garden fair. And a thing of symmetry to the view Brought to derision! —Thomas Hardy, in the London Mercury.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3861, 13 March 1928, Page 74
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