Tuesday, February 9, 2016

“Jesus wept” monostich




‘Yes,’    said  Tess.





[Source: Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbevilles (1892), ch. XXX.
 To appreciate the depths of yearning and foreboding in that simple word so spoken, you would have to have been reading the novel -- something well worth your time.]

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