Poems and sonnets of Louise Chandler Moulton / [by Louise Chandler Moulton] [electronic text]

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Moulton, Louise Chandler, 1835-1908

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Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company

1909

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FIAT JUSTITIA.

 YES, all is ended now, for I have weighed thee,— Weighed the light love that has been held so dear,— Weighed word and look and smile, that have betrayed thee, The careless grace that was not worth a tear.  

 Holding these scales, I marvel at the anguish For thing so slight that long my heart has torn,— For God's great sun the prisoner's eyes might languish. Not for a torch by some chance passer borne.  

 I do not blame thee for thy heedless playing On the strong chords whose answer was so full, — Do children care, through daisied meadows straying, What hap befalls the blossoms that they pull?  

 Go on, gay trifler! Take thy childish pleasure: On thee, for thee, may summer always shine: Too stern were Justice, should she seek to measure Thy fitful love by the strong pain of mine.  