The Oath – wiersz amerykańskiego prawnika, prozaika i poety Williama Vicarsa Lawrance’a, opublikowany w 1889 przez Riverside Press w tomie The Story of Judeth: a Tale of Bethany, with Poems of Home, Heart, and Hearth. Utwór składa się z dziesięciu części.
"Swear it!" he said; "swear on this hand Over this heart that is throbbing beneath! Swear it ! Yes, swear, that the oath may stand, Nor perish away in the passing breath. There ! it is done ! Bound soul and heart, — Not to the evil, for no black art The struggling soul shall stain, but good, Good for thee and for me. Why should Thy cheek blanch white, as if a fear Pressed on thy footsteps darkly near?
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Kategoria:Utwory Williama Vicarsa Lawrance’a Kategoria:Utwory literackie z 1889.