<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529653" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Newcomer's Wife</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He paused on the sill of a door ajar<br>That screened a lively liquor-bar,<br>For the name had reached him through the door<br>Of her he had married the week before.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'We called her the Hack of the Parade;<br>But she was discreet in the games she played;<br>If slightly worn, she's pretty yet,<br>And gossips, after all, forget.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'And he knows nothing of her past;<br>I am glad the girls in luck at last;<br>Such ones, though stale to native eyes,<br>Newcomers snatch at as a prize.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Yes, being a stranger he sees her blent<br>Of all that's fresh and innocent,<br>Nor dreams how many a love-campaign<br>She had enjoyed before his reign!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>That night there was the splash of a fall<br>Over the slimy harbour-wall:<br>They searched, and at the deepest place<br>Found him with crabs upon his face.</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> <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=529653" data-title="The Newcomer's Wife de Thomas Hardy" data-description="He paused on the sill of a door ajar That screened a lively liquor-bar, For the name had reached him through the door Of her he had married the week before. 'We called her the Hack of the Parade; But she was discreet in the games she played; If ..."></div> </div> </div>

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