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TO MY SISTER by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: THESE BOOKS YOU FIND THREE WEEKS
Last Line: "ERE WE BE YOUNG AGAIN."
Subject(s): BIRTHDAYS; SISTERS; STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS (1850-1894);

THESE books you find three weeks behind
Your honored anniversary
Make me, I fear, to here appear
Mayhap a trifle cursory. --
Yet while the Muse must thus refuse
The chords that fall caressfully,
She seems to stir the publisher
And dealer quite successfully.

As to our @3birthdays@1 -- let 'em run
Until they whir and whiz!
Read Robert Louis Stevenson,
And hum these lines of his: --
"The eternal dawn, beyond a doubt,
Shall break on hill and plain
And put all stars and candles out
Ere we be young again."



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