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ALONE IN SPRING by CAROLINE GILTINAN

First Line: I NEVER MET THE SPRING ALONE BEFORE
Last Line: ONE SHOULD BE DEAD -- OR SUDDENLY GROWN OLD.
Subject(s): SOLITUDE; SPRING; LONELINESS;
I never met the Spring alone before:
The flowers, birds, the loveliness of trees,
For with me always there was one I love --
And love is shield against such gifts as these.

But now I am alone, alone, alone;
The days and nights one long remembering.
Did other Aprils that we shared possess
The hurting beauty of this living Spring?

I never met the Spring alone before --
My starving grief -- this radiance of gold!...
To be alone, when Spring is being born,
One should be dead -- or suddenly grown old.



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