After The Quarrel By Adam Lindsay Gordon

Laurence Raby�s Chamber. LAURENCE enters, a little the worse for liquor.

    Laurence:
    He never gave me a chance to speak,
    And he call�d her, worse than a dog,
    The girl stood up with a crimson cheek,
    And I fell�d him there like a log.

    I can feel the blow on my knuckles yet,
    He feels it more on his brow.
    In a thousand years we shall all forget
    The things that trouble us now.