The Trick

The Trick written by William Henry Davies

From "Secrets", 1924

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No answer, yet I called her name,
I shook her, but no motion came,
   She showed no signs of having breath;
When, in my fear, the light was sought,
The hussy laughed: 'Is this,' I thought -
   'Some strange convulsion after death?'

I could have murdered her that hour,
To think that she had used such power
   In making me betray a love
Secret and vast, and still unknown;
A love half-dreamt, till life is done,
   And only Death himself can prove.

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