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TWO WOMEN by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER

First Line: YOU ARE A SNOWDROP, SWEET; BUT WILL
Last Line: IF I HAD KISSED YOUR PRUDENCE STILL
Subject(s): WOMEN;
You are a snowdrop; sweet but will
You look upon the daffodil
That in a careless hand has lain
So long, it cannot drink the rain
And be renewed, or by the sun
Find that unkindly grasp undone?


You are a snowdrop: put your white
By this spoiled gold, dear heart, to-night:
Touch leaves with this less happy flower
Undone by some too unhappy hour.
You might have been the daffodil
If I had kissed your prudence still.






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