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WISHES by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER

First Line: I WISH WE COULD LIVE AS THE FLOWERS LIVE
Last Line: AND TO LEAVE BUT AN EMPTY NEST.
Subject(s): WISHES;
I WISH we could live as the flowers live,
To breathe and to bloom in the summer and sun;
To slumber and sway in the heart of the night,
And to die when our glory had done.

I wish we could love as the bees love,
To rest or to roam without sorrow or sigh;
With laughter, when, after the wooer had won,
Love flew with a whispered goodbye.

I wish we could die as the birds die,
To fly and to fall when our beauty was best:
No trammels of time on the years of our face;
And to leave but an empty nest.



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