What right name should an innocence like mine
Deserve, if I believed he would come back?”
She watched him with expectant eyes, wherefrom
The ghost of humor suddenly had vanished.
Deserve, if I believed he would come back?”
She watched him with expectant eyes, wherefrom
The ghost of humor suddenly had vanished.
Gawaine, who felt a soreness at his heart
That he had seldom felt there for another
Before, and only briefly for himself,
Felt also a cloud coming in his eyes.
“I can see only one thing to believe,”
He said, believing almost he could see it,
That he had seldom felt there for another
Before, and only briefly for himself,
Felt also a cloud coming in his eyes.
“I can see only one thing to believe,”
He said, believing almost he could see it,
“And that is, he will come—as he must come.
Why should he not come back again, for you?
Who in this world would not come back, for you!
God’s life, dear lady, why should he not come back?”
He cried, and with a full sincerity
Whereat she closed her eyes and tried to speak,
Despairingly, with pale and weary lips
That would not speak until she made them speak.
Why should he not come back again, for you?
Who in this world would not come back, for you!
God’s life, dear lady, why should he not come back?”
He cried, and with a full sincerity
Whereat she closed her eyes and tried to speak,
Despairingly, with pale and weary lips
That would not speak until she made them speak.
“Gawaine,” she said, “you are not fooling me;
And I should be a fool if hope remained
Within me that you might be. You know truth
And I should be a fool if hope remained
Within me that you might be. You know truth
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