At Tea - Thomas Hardy The kettle descants in a cosy drone,And the young wife looks in her husband’s
At Tea - Thomas Hardy The kettle descants in a cosy drone,And the young wife looks in her husband’s face,And then in her guest’s, and shows in her ownHer sense that she fills an envied place;And the visiting lady is all abloom,And says there was never so sweet a room.And the happy young housewife does not knowThat the woman beside her was his first choice,Till the fates ordained it could not be so….Betraying nothing in look or voiceThe guest sits smiling and sips her tea,And he throws her a stray glance yearningly. Thomas Hardy by Francis Henry Hart, for Elliott & Fry, published by Ogden’s cigarette card, 1894, published circa 1895-1907 -- source link
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