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TO A LADY FRIEND by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

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First Line: SINCE YOU HAVE TURNED UNKIND
Last Line: STICKS, BONES OR RAGS, OR YOU!
Since you have turned unkind,
Then let the truth be known:
We poets give our praise
To any weed or stone,
Or sulking bird that in
The cold, sharp wind is dumb;
To this, or that, or you --
Whatever's first to come.

You came my way the first,
When the life-force in my blood --
Coming from none knows where --
Had reached its highest flood;
A time when any thing,
No matter old or new,
Could bring my song to birth --
Sticks, bones or rags, or you!



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