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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEARCHLIGHTS, by MILDRED SUTTON BRENEMAN
First Line: When I come back
Last Line: And the path of faint perfume.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Memory
First Line: When I come back
Last Line: And the path of faint perfume.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Memory
When I come back,
All my memories are reborn.
Along familiar streets they form,
As faces, places, come in view --
Searchlights, piercing through
To mad days that live again --
Glad days and
Sad days too.
A voice, a tune,
A faint perfume
Echo down a length of years,
Awake emotions undefined
Groping in a mist of tears,
Searching for the hidden key
To unlock the mystery
Of the voice, the mocking tune,
And the path of faint perfume.
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