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Boycott.
And now you hope?
Mary.
And now
I am happy, happy! Better too than that,
I make him happy - though that means the same.
Lady Boycott.
You, Mary, you! I thought you'd mapped your life
In solitary busy spinsterhood.
Mary.
And he has quite remapped it. Did I know
There was a man like him out in the world
Without a woman loving him and loved?
And, dear, we seem well paired. We think alike
On most things, leaving but some needful points
For controversy lest we should be drowsed
By nodding constant Yes-es. We blend well
In tastes too. And, since we both have known a love
Which darkened into storm and wearied us
With tossing long unrest - for once he wooed
Some fickle beauty and believed he'd won,
And then she left him - since we have both known
That fret and fevering, 'tis well for us
To have, in our fixed trust, calm fearless rest.
Lady Boycott.
Mary, you do not love him! No, you talk
Too soberly. You do not love him. No,
Not with your heart, the very life in you -
Less will not do. You must not; no, you must not.
You shall not marry so. Oh! if you guessed
What it will be to live as a wife lives
Beside a man who is not all to you!
All, all, I tell you.
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A Messenger
A Mother's Cry
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Dead Amy
Deserted
Dreaming
Glad Waves
Going
How The Brook Sings
If
In The Storm
In The Sunshine
Looking Downstairs
Mary Lost
Never Again
Night Whispers
On The Lake
On The Shore
Our Lily
Passing Away
Perjured
Safe
Shadow
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The Blush Rose
The Gift
The Heiress' Wooer
The Hidden Wound
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The Land Of Happy Dreams
The Old Year Out
The Red Star On The Hill
The River
The Setting Star
The Shadow Of A Cloud
To And Fro
To One Of Many
Too faithful
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