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WISDOM (1) by SARA TEASDALE

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First Line: IT WAS A NIGHT OF EARLY SPRING
Last Line: IT IS THE THINGS WE HAVE THAT GO.
Subject(s): WISDOM;

It-was a night of early spring,
The winter-sleep was scarcely broken;
Around us shadows and the wind
Listened for what was never spoken.

Though half a score of years are gone,
Spring comes as sharply now as then --
But if we had it all to do
It would be done the same again.

It was a spring that never came,
But we have lived enough to know
What we have never had, remains;
It is the things we have that go.



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