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A FICKLE HEART by GUY WETMORE CARRYL

First Line: A FICKLE HEART! LET SUBTLER POETS SING
Last Line: A FICKLE HEART.
Subject(s): HEARTS;

AFICKLE heart! Let subtler poets sing
Of changeless love and all that kind of thing,
Of hearts in which a passion never dies --
@3My@1 heart's as fickle as the summer skies
Across whose face the changing cloud-forms wing.

Unfailing loves unfailing troubles bring.
I love to touch on Cupid's harp each string,
Though each unto my questioning touch replies
A fickle heart.

So, 'twixt some thirty loves I'm wavering,
To each the same unstable vows I fling,
Reading the first glad gleam of love's surprise
In thirty pair of brown and azure eyes,
Finding in all the same thought answering
A fickle heart.



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