Resolution. (The repentant Husband.)

Jonnie Comet

Remiss have I been, darling Wife, 

Neglectful of our wedded life;

Resolv’d, like Chloe, you cried, ‘Have done!

‘Tis all but naught!’ –‘ere race was run.

 

Now I, returned, repented, grieved,

Reformed, redressed, yet not reprieved,

Requite thee but my heart, best shift,
All vows restored, one humble gift:

 

May all the joy of this wee flower

Remind thee of our wedding bower.

- 27 May 1997

* * *

l. 3 - like Chloe - Evoking ‘Chloe Resolved’, broadside ballad of John Hoadley, c.1743; in which Chloe gives up on her long-neglectful lover and casts his flowers into the stream