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REQUITALS by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS

First Line: HAST A PRESENT? BE NOT SWIFT
Last Line: IN A LASTING PHOTOGRAPH!
Hast a present? Be not swift
To return a gift for gift.
Thus the shallow mirror's face
Backward flings the approaching grace.

Rather ape that magic plate
Where the eager fluids wait
Some appeal of joy, to laugh
In a lasting photograph!



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