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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REPRISAL, by PAULINE JONES BURNS
First Line: Your transient love was only a spindling
Last Line: And then I'll strike another match.
Subject(s): Love – Nature Of
First Line: Your transient love was only a spindling
Last Line: And then I'll strike another match.
Subject(s): Love – Nature Of
Your transient love was only a spindling
Match I struck upon my heart;
With leaping flame and brilliant flare
It burned, then flickered out, a dwindling
Fragment leaving a painful smart.
Forgetting you, I shall remember
My heart has borne a stinging scratch --
A newer love perhaps I'll claim,
Replacing yours, a smoking ember,
And then I'll strike another match.
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