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FELICITY by JOHN DRINKWATER

Poet Analysis

First Line: FELICITY, COME STAY AWHILE, / AND TALK WITH ME, YOU PRETTY MAID'
Last Line: AND SHE WAS TAPPING ON THE DOOR.

'FELICITY, come stay awhile,
And talk with me, you pretty maid.'
She glanced at me, a girl of guile,
And she went running down the glade.

I stirred the embers on the stone,
I sprinkled rushes on the floor,
I took my pen to write alone, --
And she was tapping on the door.



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