Riding in his coach-and-six all on his birthday.”

“But when you spoke of me, of me—oh! what was it he said?”

“Oh, he never said a word at all, but turned away his head.”

Margaret Sackville

THE OTHER

I am the Other—I who come

To heal the wound she gave,

The wound that struck your fond words dumb,

And left your world a grave.

What though you loved her—I love you,