 | Studies in verse (1865) |  |
And winter deepened, and the widow's woes
Deepened with winter. William silent long
Had written from the bank a hasty scrawl,
Unlike himself, and begged impetuously
For money to stave off some pressing needs:
Indeed she could not send him all he sought:
She sent him half, and added piteous prayers
That he should trust her: she had right besides,
A mother's, to be trusted: what was wrong?
Mere debt was evil curable with time:
He must come home, retrench with them, resign
His clerkship, if needs be, start fair again
With new experience in a year or more.
Deepened with winter. William silent long
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Unlike himself, and begged impetuously
For money to stave off some pressing needs:
Indeed she could not send him all he sought:
She sent him half, and added piteous prayers
That he should trust her: she had right besides,
A mother's, to be trusted: what was wrong?
Mere debt was evil curable with time:
He must come home, retrench with them, resign
His clerkship, if needs be, start fair again
With new experience in a year or more.
| Studies in verse (1865) | |