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ON THE TRAIN by RUTH NOEL BENNETT

First Line: THROUGH WISPS OF SMOKE SWIFT, BACKWARD
Last Line: WAITING THE LIPS OF YOU.
Subject(s): HEARTS; LOVE; WAITING;

THROUGH wisps of smoke swift, backward-fleeting scenes
A searching gladness bring—
The bare brown fields and shivering woods forlorn,
Waiting for life, and spring!

With glad, awakened eyes I see in these
A bond of kinship new;
So lay my soul, a frozen, voiceless thing,
Waiting the lips of you.



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