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THE TWO WIVES (SMOKER'S CLUB STORY), by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: I waited at home all the while they were boating together
Last Line: "and it's just the same thing, don't you see."
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


I WAITED at home all the while they were boating together --
My wife and my near neighbour's wife:
Till there entered a woman I loved more than life,
And we sat and sat on, and beheld the uprising dark weather,
With a sense that some mischief was rife.

Tidings came that the boat had capsized, and that one of the ladies
Was drowned -- which of them was unknown:
And I marvelled -- my friend's wife? -- or was it my own
Who had gone in such wise to the land where the sun as the shade is?
-- We learnt it was his had so gone.

Then I cried in unrest: "He is free! But no good is releasing
To him as it would be to me!"
"-- But it is," said the woman I loved, quietly.
"How?" I asked her. "-- Because he has long loved me too without ceasing,
And it's just the same thing, don't you see."





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