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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529610" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Contretemps</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A forward rush by the lamp in the gloom,<br>And we clasped, and almost kissed;<br>But she was not the woman whom<br>I had promised to meet in the thawing brume<br>On that harbour-bridge; nor was I he of her tryst. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So loosening from me swift she said:<br>&quot;O why, why feign to be<br>The one I had meant - to whom I have sped<br>To fly with, being so sorrily wed,&quot;<br>'Twas thus and thus that she upbraided me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">My assignation had struck upon<br>Some others' like it, I found.<br>And her lover rose on the night anon;<br>And then her husband entered on<br>The lamplit, snowflaked, sloppiness around. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Take her and welcome, man!&quot; he cried:<br>&quot;I wash my hands of her.<br>I'll find me twice as good a bride!&quot;<br>- All this to me, whom he had eyed,<br>Plainly, as his wife's planned deliverer. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And next the lover: &quot;Little I knew,<br>Madam, you had a third!<br>Kissing here in my very view!&quot;<br>- Husband and lover then withdrew.<br>I let them; and I told them not they erred. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why not? Well, there faced she and I -<br>Two strangers who'd kissed, or near,<br>Chancewise. To see stand weeping by<br>A woman once embraced, will try<br>The tension of a man the most austere. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So it began; and I was young,<br>She pretty, by the lamp,<br>As flakes came waltzing down among<br>The waves of her clinging hair, that hung<br>Heavily on her temples, dark and damp. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there alone still stood we two;<br>She once cast off for me,<br>Or so it seemed: while night ondrew,<br>Forcing a parley what should do<br>We twain hearts caught in one catastrophe. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In stranded souls a common strait<br>Wakes latencies unknown,<br>Whose impulse may precipitate<br>A life-long leap. The hour was late,<br>And there was the Jersey boat with its funnel agroan. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Is wary walking worth much pother?&quot;<br>It grunted, as still it stayed.<br>&quot;One pairing is as good as another<br>Where is all venture! Take each other,<br>And scrap the oaths that you have aforetime made.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">- Of the four involved there walks but one<br>On earth at this late day.<br>And what of the chapter so begun?<br>In that odd complex what was done?<br>Well; happiness comes in full to none:<br>Let peace lie on lulled lips: I will not say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Hardy">Thomas Hardy</a><div class=q>
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And we clasped, and almost kissed;
But she was not the woman whom
I had promised to meet in the thawing brume
On that harbour-bridge; nor was I he of her tryst. 

So loosening from me swift she said:
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