| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Sorrows of Werther |
| | | William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) |
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| WERTHER had a love for Charlotte | |
| Such as words could never utter; | |
| Would you know how first he met her? | |
| She was cutting bread and butter. | |
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| Charlotte was a married lady, | 5 |
| And a moral man was Werther, | |
| And for all the wealth of Indies | |
| Would do nothing for to hurt her. | |
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| So he sigh’d and pin’d and ogled, | |
| And his passion boil’d and bubbled, | 10 |
| Till he blew his silly brains out, | |
| And no more was by it troubled. | |
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| Charlotte, having seen his body | |
| Borne before her on a shutter, | |
| Like a well-conducted person, | 15 |
| Went on cutting bread and butter. | |
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