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Alice: An Adultery
Alice: An Adultery (1903), PDF p. 101
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THE FORTIETH DAY
“ Away, you rascally Althea’s dream, away ! ”
II., King Henry IV.
Mere terror struck into our souls, one shaft
Sudden and swift ; our punishment was here.
The shapeless form of an avenging fear
Shuddered within her ; from the deep rich draught
Of lively labour that her nights had quaffed
Rises a serpent : prescience of next year,
The springtide ; may the Minotaur appear,
Prodigious offspring of the fatal graft ?
The worst has happened. Time must now discover
What love had hidden from the wittol’s eyes
(What hate may tell him if he read my song,
If he be subtle : not if he be wise)
In our despair came laughter to my lover :
“ All’s well as yet. I calculated wrong.”
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