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15.
But you meet the Prince at the Board,
I’m queen myself at bals-paré,
I ’ve married a rich old lord,
And you ’re dubbed knight and an R.A.
But you meet the Prince at the Board,
I’m queen myself at bals-paré,
I ’ve married a rich old lord,
And you ’re dubbed knight and an R.A.
16.
Each life 's unfulfilled, you see;
It hangs still, patchy and scrappy:
We have not sighed deep, laughed free,
Starved, feasted, despaired,—been happy.
Each life 's unfulfilled, you see;
It hangs still, patchy and scrappy:
We have not sighed deep, laughed free,
Starved, feasted, despaired,—been happy.
17.
And nobody calls you a dunce,
And people suppose me clever:
This could but have happened once,
And we missed it, lost it for ever.
And nobody calls you a dunce,
And people suppose me clever:
This could but have happened once,
And we missed it, lost it for ever.
