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TO A LADY SITTING IN STARLIGHT by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN

First Line: THOSE STARS THAT DROWN THEIR LIGHTIN TWO DARK LAKES
Last Line: TO BEAT A WORLD TO SAND WITH EVERY WAVE.
Subject(s): STARS;
Those stars that drown their light in two dark lakes
Of parted hair, and make your pale brow paler, --
Those stars far from a world that each day wakes
To madder strife with wilder winds that veil her, --
In unimagined distance poised and clear,
Deaf to the bed-cry and the prison call,
Envied of drudge and footsore harvester, --
They are the fiercest toilers of us all.

And you who make men dream of roads that end, --
Of cool, green grass beside a shaded door, --
Of wondrous silence tender as a friend,
And still delights that sweeten the heart's core, --
You toil behind your smile like seas that crave
To beat a world to sand with every wave.



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