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SEARCHLIGHTS by MILDRED SUTTON BRENEMAN

First Line: WHEN I COME BACK
Last Line: AND THE PATH OF FAINT PERFUME.
Subject(s): HOMECOMING; MEMORY;

When I come back,
All my memories are reborn.
Along familiar streets they form,
As faces, places, come in view --
Searchlights, piercing through
To mad days that live again --
Glad days and
Sad days too.

A voice, a tune,
A faint perfume
Echo down a length of years,
Awake emotions undefined
Groping in a mist of tears,
Searching for the hidden key
To unlock the mystery
Of the voice, the mocking tune,
And the path of faint perfume.



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