Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]
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Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]
Author
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907
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Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
1885
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COMEDY.
THEY parted, with clasps of hand, And kisses, and burning tears. They met, in a foreign land, After some twenty years:
Met as acquaintances meet, Smilingly, tranquil-eyed— Not even the least little beat Of the heart, upon either side!
They chatted of this and that, The nothings that make up life; She in a Gainsborough hat, And he in black for his wife.
Ah, what a comedy this! Neither was hurt, it appears: Yet once she had leaned to his kiss, And once he had known her tears!
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