Yellow Nineties 2.0 The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, Volume 12 January 1897 <editor>Lorraine Janzen Kooistra</editor> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <p> <date>2020</date> </p> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt> <idno>YBV12_27po</idno> <publisher>Yellow Nineties 2.0</publisher> <pubPlace>Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities</pubPlace> <address> <addrLine>English Department</addrLine> <addrLine>350 Victoria Street,</addrLine> <addrLine>Toronto ON,</addrLine> <addrLine>M5B 2K3</addrLine> <addrLine>Canada</addrLine> </address> <availability> <p>Usable according to the Creative Commons License <ref target="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike</ref>.</p> </availability> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <biblStruct> <monogr> <editor> <persName>Henry Harland</persName> </editor> <author>A. Bernard Miall</author> <title>The Burden of Pity John Lane London New York January 1897 Miall, A. Bernard. "The Burden of Pity" The Yellow Book, vol. 12, January 1897, pp. 248-249. Yellow Book Digital Edition, edited by Dennis Denisoff and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2010-2014. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2020. https://1890s.ca/YBV12_miall_burden/

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The Burden of Pity By A. Bernard Miall WALK straitly in your ways, O sweer, For very pity of my love ; There is one pathway for your feet, One valley in cool hills above, A way that I sought out for you In dreams, because my love was true. Belovèd, will you think that God In His own shape had fashioned man, And watched the path His creature trod That ended foul, that fair began ; With great love, though His eyes were dim For pity ; could you weep for Him ? But I a perfect image wrought Of all I would have had you be In likeness of my holiest thought : And you have grown less fair to see, And I more pitiful than God, Knowing the way you might have trod. Yet By A. Bernard Miall 249 Yet I will deem your heart as pure As I have wished it every day, And call each fault the signature Of pain that came and passed away ; And I will love you more, my sweet, For every stain on those white feet. And every wound shall be a mouth To sing of what you should have grown Did winds blow ever from the south, If you had never been alone : My love, that came too late to aid, For pity shall be threefold made. Yet, wild rose that the wind has flawed, But else more fair than all your kind, O snowflake on white eyelids thawed To leave a falling tear behind, O wherefore are you not complete, Or, being ruined, wherefore sweet ?