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GONE INTO LONG FROCKS by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE

First Line: SHE'S A WOMAN! / THE GRACIOUS GIRL'S I LONGER DRESSES
Last Line: GIVES ME HER EYES AND VOICE FOR HERITAGE.
Subject(s): WOMEN;
SHE'S a woman!
The gracious girl's in longer dresses,
And desecrating hands have piled
In one bright crown her flying tresses;
But yesterday she was a child,
And joined to mine her frank caresses,
Perched in a radiant bundle on my knee
To stroke my face or kiss it suddenly.

She's a woman!
O thievish Time, to steal my pleasure,
Her weight, her fingers in my hair!
No more she dangles at her leisure
A shapely limb from out the pear.
Still, in a statelier way this treasure
Colours my life, and from the tomboy age
Gives me her eyes and voice for heritage.



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