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The Kingdom of Love by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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This wonderful swinging signboard,
So terribly, fearfully true.



A MAN'S REPENTANCE
(Intended for recitation at club dinners.)



To-night when I came from the club at eleven,
Under the gaslight I saw a face -
A woman's face! and I swear to heaven
It looked like the ghastly ghost of--Grace!

And Grace? why, Grace was fair; and I tarried,
And loved her a season as we men do.
And then--but pshaw! why, of course, she is married,
Has a husband, and doubtless a babe or two.

She was perfectly calm on the day we parted;
She spared me a scene, to my great surprise.
"She wasn't the kind to be broken-hearted,"
I remember she said, with a spark in her eyes.

I was tempted, I know, by her proud defiance,
To make good my promise there and then.
But the world would have called it a mesalliance!
I dreaded the comments and sneers of men.

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