Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди))
He Did Not Know Me
(Woman’s Sorrow Song) He said: ‘I do not know you; You are not she who came And made my heart grow tame?’ I laughed: ‘The same!’ Still said he: ‘I don’t know you.’ ‘But I am your Love!’ laughed I: ‘Yours – faithful ever – till I die, And pulseless lie!’ Yet he said: ‘I don’t know you.’ Freakful, I went away, And met pale Time, with ‘Pray, What means his Nay?’ Said Time: ‘He does not know you In your mask of Comedy.’ ‘But,’ said I, ‘that I have chosen to be: Tragedy he.’ ‘True; hence he did not know you.’ ‘But him I could recognize?’ ‘Yea. Tragedy is true guise, Comedy lies.’
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