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A FOREIGN TONGUE by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH

First Line: WHEN LOVERS TALK, THEY TALK A FOREIGN TONGUE
Last Line: WHEN LOVERS TALK, THEY TALK A FOREIGN TONGUE.
Subject(s): LOVE;
WHEN lovers talk, they talk a foreign tongue.
Their words are not like ours,
But full of meanings like the throb of flowers
Yet in the earth, unborn. I think the snow
Feels the mysterious passage and the flow
Of inarticulate streams that surge below.
And it is easy learning for the young;
When lovers talk, they talk a foreign tongue.



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