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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TRANSITION, by WINIFRED LUCAS
First Line: You who brought my heart defeat
Last Line: All your childhood thro' so fast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Change
First Line: You who brought my heart defeat
Last Line: All your childhood thro' so fast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Change
YOU who brought my heart defeat
Ere your infancy was gone,
Keep me constant to the fleet
Change of sweetness moving on.
Since to earthlier touch compelled,
From a shy and shrinking past
Reach the hand that angels held
All your childhood thro' so fast.
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