<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=505533" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Two in a tower</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Viviette, Lady Constantine, tender<br>Even at her thirty, was a splendour.<br>Her husband had no time to engage her<br>As with other women he was merrier.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The tender vine lady, stake less, wandered<br>And, on a lad in a tower, stumbled.<br>She endeared the lad to explore her<br>While he was there to explore stars elsewhere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her age and dignity held Swithin.<br>His age and purity held Viviette.<br>Death of her husband rescued her from guilt; <br>Warmth of her lover was free to travel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Bishop, a widower, was enchanted<br>With the company of Lady Constantine, <br>And was desperate to secure her hand, <br>Her young widowhood taken for granted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Viviette had loved Swithin for her shake<br>And more for his shake; she subjected her<br>.Self-love to his benevolence, and made<br>Her motherly love shade her sexual love.<br>.<br>She coerced him to set out for his future<br>And forced herself to desert his gesture.<br>She made herself marry the widower<br>To be father for her expecting child.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Viviette again became a widow<br>And for Swithis’ return, she stood in glow.<br>The joy of reunion took her life; <br>The child got him, the bona fide father.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her first husband deserted her<br>Her lover could not marry her.<br>Her second one is not her choice.<br>She thanked her lover with a child.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“‘tis in the mercy of her eye<br>If poor love shall live or die; <br>A silver line is her child, <br>In her life, full of cloud.”<br>29.08.2000, Pmdi<br>[ a novel by Thomas Hardy]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rm.+Shanmugam+Chettiar">Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=505533" data-title="Two in a tower de Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar" data-description="Viviette, Lady Constantine, tender Even at her thirty, was a splendour. Her husband had no time to engage her As with other women he was merrier. The tender vine lady, stake less, wandered And, on a lad in a tower, stumbled. She endeared the lad ..."></div> </div> </div>

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