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WAITED at home all the while they were boating together— My wife and my near neighbour's wife: Till there entered a woman I loved more than life, And we sat and sat on, and beheld the uprising dark weather, With a sense that some mischief was rife.

Tidings came that the boat had capsized, and that one of the ladies Was drowned—which of them was unknown: And I marvelled—my friend's wife?—or was it my own Who had gone in such wise to the land where the sun as the shade is? —We learnt it was his had so gone.