id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 31467 Rowland, Helen The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor .txt text/plain 2389 245 95 [Illustration: PROMISED TO PAY A WOMAN'S BILLS FOR LIFE.] You know how little while we have to Love-And Love's light Hand is knocking at the door!" [Illustration: HIS WINTER GARMENTS HUNG--WHERE, NO ONE KNOWS!] A charming Woman--and the old Love-Game! Who laughed at Love, as but an idle jest, LOOK to the Married Men! Promised to pay a Woman's bills for life-INDEED, 'tis better to have loved and lost-Than to have loved and married, and for aye, OFT, to some patient married man I turn, Turned gaily to the old Love-Game, once more. AND, much as I repented things like this, Would you cast a loving Woman hence? Would you cast a loving Woman hence? A MARRIED MAN, to rail in vain at Fate! Dost thou, to-day, of Man a puppet make! _Too oft_ to Love's empyrean Font I stray, Up to the rose-decked Altar-Rail shall pass, ./cache/31467.txt ./txt/31467.txt