Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ANNIVERSARY TOAST, by LUNA CRAVEN OSBURN


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ANNIVERSARY TOAST, by                    
First Line: Memory is a rue-y wine
Last Line: "once again!"" -- both toast and prayer."
Subject(s): Memory


Memory is a rue-y wine
Crushed from out the shriveled grape
Of a happier, sweeter time.
Pass the days which numbly shape
My warm lips to anguish mute.

Hemlock would be not too drear
Were we ne'er again to meet;
Days, like yellow leaves and sere,
With no spring again, to greet
Heart-sap in the dormant root.

I pick up the glass and sip.
Push it back -- then taste again;
Press it firmly to my lip;
Touching every chord of pain
As I strum heart's lonely lute.

Pah! I'll cast aside my sorrow!
Drink the goblet at a quaff,
Pledging there shall be tomorrow --
Teach again my lips to laugh. . . .
Comes about, mutation rare!

For instead of acrid rue,
Memory is a fragrance sweet;
Rosemary's so tender hue
Promises that we shall meet.
"Once again!" -- Both toast and prayer.





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