Urbs in Rure. Rondeau
Edythe H.
Cross
Cross, Edythe H.
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University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
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Woman’s World
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For you and me, who come oppressed
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Urbs in Rure
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Rondeau
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For you and me, who come oppressed
With London’s turmoil, here is rest.
Ah me ! If we could idly dream
For ever down this sunlit stream ;
Or seek some hidden cottage-nest,
And shun the city’s weary quest
Of hollow mirth : then life were blessed,
And time with endless joys would teem
For you and me.
But—if you missed the club’s last jest,
Or I should doubt how Fashion dressed,
And if we lost the bliss supreme
Of Madam Scandal’s newest theme—
Ah, turn the boat !—the town is best
For you and me.
Edythe H. Cross
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