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The Kiss (A Girl's Songs)

Mary Carolyn Davies

Your kiss lies on my face
   Like the first snow
Upon a summer place.

Bewildered by that wonder,
The grasses tremble under
The thing they do not know.
I tremble even so.

From: Rittenhouse, Jessie B.
The Second Book of Modern Verse (1919).

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