Time's Revenges.
She broke my heart, as women do:
Harm to harm-doers oft recurs;
It happened, in a year or two,
That I broke hers.
Harm to harm-doers oft recurs;
It happened, in a year or two,
That I broke hers.
First published in the "Things One Would Rather Have Expressed Differently" section of Lapsus Calami, "Time's Revenges" was dropped from the third edition and never reinstated.
Time's Revenges.