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WIFE TO HUSBAND by FORD MADOX FORD

First Line: IF I WENT PAST YOU DOWN THIS HILL
Last Line: AND NOUGHT HAD PASSED OF ALL THAT WAS OF YORE?
Subject(s): MARRIAGE; WEDDINGS; HUSBANDS; WIVES;
IF I went past you down this hill
And you had never seen my face before,
Would all your being feel the sudden thrill
You said it felt, once more?

If I went past you through this shaw,
Would be all a-quiver at the brush
Of my trailed garments; would the sudden hush
You said the black-birds' voices had in awe
Of my first coming, fall upon the place
Once more, if you had never seen my face
Nor ever heard my passing by before,
And nought had passed of all that was of yore?



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