She Charged Me
She charged me with having said this and that To another woman long years before, In the very parlour where we sat, - Sat on a night when the endless pour Of rain on the roof and the road below Bent the spring of the spirit more and more . . . - So charged she me; and the Cupid's bow Of her mouth was hard, and her eyes, and her face, And her white forefinger lifted slow. Had she done it gently, or shown a trace That not too curiously would she view A folly passed ere her reign had place, A kiss might have ended it. But I knew From the fall of each word, and the pause between, That the curtain would drop upon us two Ere long, in our play of slave and queen.
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