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1913 · PDF PAGE 4

The Writing On the Ground

…hough certainly they had abhorred| The task of locking up a lord. For a more tragic role you played Your master neatly who betrayed. His shame and torture turned your leer To a snarl, your drab’s smile to a sneer; Quickened, when afterwards your help He needed, to a currish yelp. Now—-so the wheel of Fortune whirls !— Your kindly love for little girls And ardour for the fine old faith Makes all that past a wisp, a wraith. You patronise our Sunday schools, Pronounce on Grammar's darkest rules, Rebuke bad taste, irreverence, Heresy, humbug, and p…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 6

The Writing On the Ground

… : What is thy name?’ He said, ‘ My name is Love.’ Then straight the first did turn himself to me And cried, ‘ He lieth, for his name is Shame ; But I am Love, and I was wont to be Alone in this fair garden, till he came Unasked by night ; Iam true Love, I fill The hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame.’ ‘Then sighing said the other, ‘ Have thy will. I am the Love that dare not speak its name.’ '* But the great joke is a tragedy in one act enti- tled. “When the King comes he is welcome.” There are two characters in it, Giovanni and Francisco…

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