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THE PAST by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT

First Line: O FOR THE SONGS THAT MAIDS SANG IN TIMES PAST
Last Line: GOD, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THEIR LOVE!
Subject(s): LOVE - LOSS OF; MOURNING; PAST; BEREAVEMENT;
O for the songs that maids sang in times past
To ease their hearts;
Sang in the Spring,
When rivers flow again,
When violets bloom and phoebes build their nests!

O the bright eyes and hot cheeks
Awaiting young lovers,
In summer dusk,
When work was done,
And cattle crunched the corn in stanchioned rows!

Faded the eyes and cold the cheeks;
Ceased is the singing.
The rivers flow,
The dark falls;
But the girls do not come.
God, what have you done with their love!



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