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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOO LATE THE GIFT, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FIELD
First Line: I went to buy a coat for love
Last Line: "too late, too late! I know it now, my loved one's dead!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Ben
Subject(s): Ghosts; Gifts & Giving; Supernatural
First Line: I went to buy a coat for love
Last Line: "too late, too late! I know it now, my loved one's dead!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Ben
Subject(s): Ghosts; Gifts & Giving; Supernatural
I went to buy a coat for love,
A velvet thing all tailored for a woman's grace.
I saw it as 'twould fit and glad my one dear heart --
I saw, or thought I saw, the light upon her face.
I knew that when her body moved
That coat would cry her beauty to the night or day,
That when she wore it there'd be a haunting love-sight
In her gallant eyes -- God made her that endearing way.
"You'll send it up?" (my voice was quick),
"Two hundred dollars, please," the paling salesman said.
"All right, all right, but stop! Dear Christ, have I grown mad?
Too late, too late! I know it now, my loved one's dead!"
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