Summary

Portrait of Charlotte Mew Charlotte Mew The Farmer's Bride — Le Sacré-Cœur… (1921)

It is dark on the dome-capped hill,
⁠Serenely dark, divinely still,
Yet here is the Man who bought you first
⁠Dying of his immortal smart,
Your Lover, the King with the broken heart,
⁠Who while you, feasting, drink your fill,
⁠Pass round the cup
⁠Not looking up,
Calls down to you, "I thirst."
"A king with a broken heart! Mon Dieu!
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