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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SERENADE, by GEORGE H. DILLON
First Line: Your pallor is no rose that blooms
Last Line: And is forgot. And you, and you. . . .
Subject(s): Memory
First Line: Your pallor is no rose that blooms
Last Line: And is forgot. And you, and you. . . .
Subject(s): Memory
Your pallor is no rose that blooms
And no white bird with glassy plumes.
More pale than pear trees blowing white
Your body trembles on the night.
The music of your motion is
Least dubious of mysteries
For so I sense you from afar.
Like bird and bloom and song you are.
These things I loved, but they are lost.
The bird is broken on the gust.
The bloom is given to the dust.
A song is never always new
And is forgot. And you, and you. . . .
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