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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SCUFFLED DUST, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poet's Biography
First Line: The lean white birches of the moon
Last Line: What came after I do not know.
Subject(s): Apple Blossoms; Apples; Fruit; Insects; Spiders; Virtue; Bugs
First Line: The lean white birches of the moon
Last Line: What came after I do not know.
Subject(s): Apple Blossoms; Apples; Fruit; Insects; Spiders; Virtue; Bugs
The lean white birches of the moon
Leaped through the hoop of the noon.
The spider spun her purling lies
Snaring believing little flies.
The blossom, golden-hearted, bore
The worm that ate the apple's core.
A sin put on so sweet a dress
Virtue laughed at her light caress.
Thus it was, long, long ago:
What came after I do not know.
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