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Housman is writing love poems, inspired by the Greeks and Romans, for his friend Moses Jackson. In turn, Jackson is using the poems to woo a young woman he has fallen in love with. However, Jackson (up until this scene) has no idea that Housman harbors a love for him, and in writing the poems, Housman is really writing them to Jackson. As the young men talk, Housman finally reveals his true feelings for Jackson.
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Jackson: (reading from a handwritten page)
鈥楤lest as one of the gods is he,
The Youth who fondly sits by thee,
And hears and sees thee all the while
Softly speak and sweetly smile.
For while I gaze with trembling heart 鈥︹€�
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Jackson: It鈥檚 rotten luck but it鈥檒l be our secret. You鈥檒l easily find some decent digs around here--we鈥檒l catch the same train to work as always, and I bet before you know it you鈥檒l meet the right girl and we鈥檒l all three be chuckling over this--Rosa, I mean. What about that? I dare say I鈥檝e surprised you! All right? Shake on it?
Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love, Grove Press, 1997, pp. 73-78.
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