Fugitive Poetry. 1600–1878/The Weeping Widow

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4079471Fugitive Poetry. 1600–1878The Weeping WidowJ. C. Hutchieson

The Weeping Widow.

Lady Bel, who in public bewails her dead spouse,.
While in private her thoughts on another are turning,
Reminds us of lighting a fire with green boughs,
Which weep at one end while the other is burning.