Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVE'S MASQUERADES: LOVE, THE DECEIVER, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS


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LOVE'S MASQUERADES: LOVE, THE DECEIVER, by                    
First Line: Deep in a drafty orchard just in shoot
Last Line: "and life undone;"" -- and here he wept again."
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Duplicity; Love; Deceit


Deep in a drafty orchard just in shoot,
A-shivering as the light wind laugh'd and sped,
A soft-limb'd stripling wept and shrill'd his flute,
With daffodils bound doubly round his head,

"Why then so woebegone, fair friend?" I said,
"Now every man some maiden finds to suit.
"Come, learn a strain more gaily gamuted,
"And don some flower can bring forth likelier fruit."

"Not so," quoth he. "Love came in lady's guise,
"Crimson with sweet intent, and piled our bed;
"And when I drew her t'wards it in love's-wise,
"Love laugh'd and spann'd his flaming wings and fled.

"Deceived in Love himself, all love is vain,
"And life undone;" -- and here he wept again.





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