Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A BIRTHDAY, by WINIFRED LUCAS


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A BIRTHDAY, by                    
First Line: Light wakes you with no gentler kiss
Last Line: Is fête to spare.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Children; Youth; Childhood


LIGHT wakes you with no gentler kiss
To six years old;
Your own sweet hair no readier is
With gold.

Life has no special gift to-day:
The whole year through
Life's happiest self he gives away
To you.

Love has no gift reserved, ah no,
At last to give;
How could he hoard his treasure so,
And live?

These, then, to fête the day refuse
In measure rare.
And why? Because their daily use
Is fête to spare.





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