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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOST, by MABEL STAFFORD
First Line: You never knew when I stopped loving you
Last Line: With you, you never guessing you have lost.
Subject(s): Life
First Line: You never knew when I stopped loving you
Last Line: With you, you never guessing you have lost.
Subject(s): Life
You never knew when I stopped loving you:
Our voices murmured on in conversation's thread;
You walked beside me on the highway wide,
Nor ever saw the cloud which overspread
The sun when love for you within me died.
But shadows on the land are shelt'ring friends:
The cloud gave glad surcease to me from scorching love;
I gained in freedom from the price you cost.
And life still flows along its patient groove,
With you, you never guessing you have lost.
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