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REPRISAL by PAULINE JONES BURNS

First Line: YOUR TRANSIENT LOVE WAS ONLY A SPINDLING
Last Line: AND THEN I'LL STRIKE ANOTHER MATCH.
Subject(s): LOVE – NATURE OF;
Your transient love was only a spindling
Match I struck upon my heart;
With leaping flame and brilliant flare
It burned, then flickered out, a dwindling
Fragment leaving a painful smart.

Forgetting you, I shall remember
My heart has borne a stinging scratch --
A newer love perhaps I'll claim,
Replacing yours, a smoking ember,
And then I'll strike another match.



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