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"Poems / Alan Seeger [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD7802.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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Farewell, dear heart, enough of vain despairing!If I have erred I plead but one excuse—The jewel were a lesser joy in wearingThat cost a lesser agony to lose.
I had not bid for beautifuller hoursHad I not found the door so near unsealed,Nor hoped, had you not filled my arms with flowers,For that one flower that bloomed too far afield.
If I have wept, it was because, forsaken,I felt perhaps more poignantly than someThe blank eternity from which we wakenAnd all the blank eternity to come.
And I betrayed how sweet a thing and tender(In the regret with which my lip was curled)Seemed in its tragic, momentary splendorMy transit through the beauty of the world.
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