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A MESSAGE by ANONYMOUS

First Line: A LITTLE WHITE DOVE FLUTTERED CLOSE TO MY PANE
Last Line: "I WHISPERED MY SECRET THAT NON ELSE MIGHT KEN, / AND IT EAGERLY BORE IT ALONG"
Subject(s): LONGING;LOVE;SECRETS;

A LITTLE white dove fluttered close to my pane,
I caught it a moment in play,
And whispered a love-word again and again
To my true love, then bade it away.

A little white cloud slowly sailed o'er the moon,
Upon it I wished I might be,
For then, O my love, I would sail to thee soon
Who 'rt dearer than all else to me.

A murmuring brook wound its way through a glen,
Then broke into tremulous song;
I whispered my secret that none else might ken,
And it eagerly bore it along.



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