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THE MIST by ANNIE MATHESON

First Line: THE SUN AND THE DEW WERE SO FAR APART
Last Line: ERE THE SUN HAD SET.
Subject(s): ABSENCE; HEARTS; LOVE; SEPARATION; ISOLATION;

THE sun and the dew were so far apart,
The world would have said they could never have met,
But the sun looked down with a burning heart
When the earth with the crystal dew was wet;
So the dew went up in a golden mist—
And they kist,
Till the dew came back at the close of day,
In a robe of the colour of amethyst,—
And a crown of pearls on the green earth lay,
Like tears of hope and of wild regret
That told of an unforgotten tryst,
Ere the sun had set.



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