Second April by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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page 19 of 56 (33%)
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My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going. LOW-TIDE These wet rocks where the tide has been, Barnacled white and weeded brown And slimed beneath to a beautiful green, These wet rocks where the tide went down Will show again when the tide is high Faint and perilous, far from shore, No place to dream, but a place to die,-- The bottom of the sea once more. There was a child that wandered through A giant's empty house all day,-- House full of wonderful things and new, But no fit place for a child to play. SONG OF A SECOND APRIL April this year, not otherwise Than April of a year ago, Is full of whispers, full of sighs, Of dazzling mud and dingy snow; |
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