Verse and Reverse (1921)/The Affianced


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The Affianced

A haunting woman
Drifts by my bed,
Flits past my head,
Jeers in my dream.

She never leaves me—
When night is done
With glimpse of sun
Her tresses gleam.

Those wondrous tresses!
Those eyes ashine—
And he—loves mine?
Loves me—instead?

The haunting woman
Has known his kiss,
I know but this—
She is not dead.

—Florence Randal Livesay


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