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"A Mother, too!" these self-same words
Did Edward mutter plain;
His face was drawn back on itself,
With horror and huge pain.
Both groan'd at once, for both knew well
What thoughts were in his mind;
When he wak'd up, and star'd like one
That hath been just struck blind.
He sat upright; and ere the dream
Had had time to depart,
"O God, forgive me! (he exclaim'd)
"I have torn out her heart."
Then Ellen shriek'd, and forthwith burst
Into ungentle laughter;
And Mary shiver'd, where she sat,
And never she smil'd after.
Carmen religuum in futurum tempus relegatum. To-morrow!
and To-morrow and To-morrow!—
