Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE PROTEAN MAID (SONG), by THOMAS HARDY



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First Line: This single girl is two girls
Last Line: "with kisses swift and slow."


THIS single girl is two girls:
How strange such things should be!
One noon eclipsed by few girls,
The next no beauty she.

And daily cries the lover,
In voice and feature vext:
"My last impression of her
Is never to be the next!

"She's plain: I will forget her!
She's turned to fair. Ah no,
Forget? -- not I! I'll pet her
With kisses swift and slow."





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