Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/Time's Revenges

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Lapsus Calami (1891) by J.K.S.
Time's Revenges

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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

She broke my heart, as women do
⁠Harm to harm-doers oft recurs;
It happened, in a year or two,
⁠That I broke hers.