XIV

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Despair

And ruin'd by him, by him, I stood there, naked, amazed

In a world of arrogant opulence, fear'd myself turning crazed,

And I would not be mock'd in a madhouse! and she, the delicate wife,

With a grief that could only be cured, if cured, by the surgeon's knife,—

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