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To My Wife With A Copy Of My Poems

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I can write no stately proem     As a prelude to my lay;     From a poet to a poem     I would dare to say.     For if of these fallen petals     One to you seem fair,     Love will waft it till it settles     On your hair.     And when wind and winter harden     All the loveless land,     It will whisper of the garden,     You will understand.

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