Shoes that danced and other poems / Anna Hempstead Branch [electronic text]

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Branch, Anna Hempstead, 1875-1937

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company

1905

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TO NATURE

 I LOVE thee, sweet, because thou art so sure, Beautiful always. Never a mood of ours Has touched thine eyes with sorrow. Thou dost endure Tranquil amid thy sunshine and thy showers, And thou art rich and delicate and pure, Serene as Heaven dallying among flowers. 

 A solace amid woe is this to me, That though we perish, still the world is fair. We cannot, by lamenting, darken thee, Nor with our tears wash out thy beauty rare. Still shall a violet evening please the sea, And a pale splendor satisfy the air. 