human
Many are far away, pent in bricks and mortar, yearning deep to see the dance of the Spring, and chained out of sight of it. This might bring one glimpse to them.
gpt
An' so it might, if you sold it for a bit of money. Then it could be printed out for 'em like t'other was.
human
You don't understand--you won't understand--even you.
gpt
I caan't please 'e to-day. I likes the li'l verses ever so. You do make such things seem butivul to my ear--an' so true as a photograph.
human
There! Let her take them to the sea with her. She understands. Maybe she'll find a cool corner for me too before many days are passed.
gpt
What, in God's name, have I done to 'e you should treat me like this?
human
Been fool enough to love me, he answered.
gpt
But it's never too late for a woman to change her mind. Leave a sinking ship, or rather a ship that never got properly launched, but, sticking out of its element, was left to rot. Why don't you leave me, Chris?
human
Not till the end of the world comes for wan of us, Clem. I'll love 'e always, and the better and deeper 'cause you 'm so wisht an' unlucky somehow. But you 'm tu wise to be miserable all your time.
gpt
You ought to make me a man if anything could. I burn away with hopes and hopes, and more hopes for the future, and miss the paltry thing at hand that might save me.
human
Then miss it no more, love; seek closer, an' seek sharper. Maybe gude work an' gude money 's awnly waitin' for 'e to find it. Doan't look at the moon an' stars so much; think of me, an' look lower.