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Poems with Fables in Prose

By Frederic Herbert Trench

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The Unhappy Marriage
  
  


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The Unhappy Marriage

Germany

Tell me but why—since you left and reproved me—
If you respected, you never have loved me?
Tell me but why.

Italy

Merely because of a point you neglected:
If you have loved me, you never respected.
Tell me but why.