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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841–1928)
Respite
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Sing, throstle, for love’s sake!
Sing, sing, as if no heart might ever break!
Of winds, let patter down
The blossom-rain, as if no storms had blown!
Your dainty presence stirs
Such blessed thoughts, ye little comforters.
Let me be glad again,—
Forgetting grief that is, and that has been.