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RETURN by GLADYS VERVILLE DEANE

First Line: HOW PLEASURABLE TO HAVE YOU HERE, MY FRIEND
Last Line: BUT I HAVE NEVER BEEN AWAY FROM YOU.
Subject(s): AUTUMN; FRIENDSHIP; REUNIONS; SEASONS; FALL;

How pleasurable to have you here, my friend,
Asking how many pumpkins I will get
This autumn; if the beetle sprays defend
My roses; if the old pain bothers yet.

I tell you, yes, we weathered winters well.
Surely (I often try our duet score --
Alone. (I am a Farmer in the Dell;
You play the modern compositions more.)

You laugh, wanting each triviality,
Because, you say -- and well I know it's true --
You have been gone infinitudes from me;
But I have never been away from you.



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