The Alternative

This way or that, ye Powers above me! I of my grief were rid-- Did Enna either really love me, Or cease to think she did.

First published in Lit. Rem., i. 59. Included in Essays, &c., iii. 987. First collected in P. W., 1885, ii. 364.

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In Spain, that land of Monks and Apes, The thing called Wine doth come from grapes, But on the noble River Rhine, The thing called Gripes doth come from Wine!

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