The Village Wife's Lament

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The Village Wife's Lament is a work by Maurice Hewlett. A speaker asks what has been done to her and what she has done, with the roof-tree bare and herself all alone. The speaker says she was a new-made wife and now is none.

One section says the Lord of Life did ordain how this world should run, and that He made man but man made war. A speaker says that, standing at her open door, she caught a flying word from two strangers who said that means war. One passage argues that if those who do a nation's work are given their due share of that nation's government, war, the writer firmly believes, will become a dark memory.

About the author

Maurice Hewlett

Maurice Hewlett was an English novelist, essayist, and poet whose work ranged across travel writing, historical romance, short fiction, drama, and verse. Born in 1861, he trained in law and held a government records post before literature became his principal career.