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ALL YOU HAVE LOVED by ELAINE V. EMANS

First Line: ALL YOU HAVE LOVED INDUBITABLY LIES
Last Line: ALL YOU HAVE LOVED IS NOW FOREVER YOU.
All you have loved indubitably lies
Warm in the heart, or sparkles in the eyes:
Birdsong at dawns intoxicate with May,
Organs at dusk, slim birches, and the way
A rabbit patterns first snow; color of ocean;
Rain on the roof at midnight, and the motion
Of dancers swaying with unstudied grace;
Old volumes, joy transfiguring a face,
Slow talk in candlelight, and larkspur's blue.
All you have loved is now forever you.



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