Handful of lavender / Lizette Woodworth Reese [electronic text]
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Handful of lavender / Lizette Woodworth Reese [electronic text]
Author
Reese, Lizette Woodworth, 1856-1935
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Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
1893
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EACH TIME THE WIND BLOWS
EACH time the wind blows, up I look and seeA swarm of blossoms rising in the air,And of its week-old flakes the hedge left bare,And apple-boughs deserted by the bee,And the one tardy-blossomed, slim peach-treeBlown like a flame against the stone wall there.But nay, not you; still empty climbs the stair.Yet, by sure signs the new year gives to me, —By daffodils aging upon their stalks;By purple of the lilac turning gray;And by the last of bloom the long day throughHeaped in the roads, and whitening all the walks, —Full well I know you speeding this dear way.Can June return once more, and, sweet, not you?
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