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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BETWEEN THE LINES, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poet's Biography
First Line: O friend, you have read it aright
Last Line: Ah!—you never got it at all.
Subject(s): Friendship; Writing & Writers
First Line: O friend, you have read it aright
Last Line: Ah!—you never got it at all.
Subject(s): Friendship; Writing & Writers
O FRIEND, you have read it aright,
Just as I meant that you should.
I penned it in plain black and white,
To be so and so understood.
Yes, thus was it written, O friend,
According to every law.
I swear it, I did not intend
A syllable save what you saw.
'T was all that I willed you to read—
Resolved that but this should be seen.
Yet God! what a different creed
My mad thoughts wrote in between!
So you read only just what you could;
And the actual letter of all,
Written with very heart's blood,
Ah!—you never got it at all.
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