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Love Songs

    Come

Sara Teasdale

Come, when the pale moon like a petal
 Floats in the pearly dusk of Spring,
Come with arms outstretched to take me,
 Come with lips that long to cling.

Come, for life is a frail moth flying,
 Caught in the web of the years that pass,
And soon we two, so warm and eager,
 Will be as the gray stones in the grass.

 

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

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