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LINES TO A GOLF WIDOW, by                    
First Line: If you had said eight months ago
Last Line: To know!
Subject(s): Golf; Sports


If you had said eight months ago
When January blizzards blew,
And all the greens were deep with snow,
That I must give up golf or you,
I might have stayed the fatal step,
I might, before it was too late,
Have vowed that we should never sep-
Arate.

If, even in early Spring,
When we were playing winter rules,
When mud flew thick at every swing,
And balls fell "chug!" in casual pools,
You'd been disposed to raise a row
And talked of leaving me again,
I might have listened to you now
And then.

Indeed, along in mid-July
When sultry blew the listless breeze,
And temperatures ran rather high --
Say ninety-two or -three degrees,
Had you the riot statute read
Till I agreed to quit, I might --
I can't be sure -- I might have said:
"All right!"

But now, when greens are hard and fast,
And fairways like an emerald floor,
When I have got the swing at last
And confidently bawl out "Fore!"
Your threat to part may be a bluff,
Or you may really pack and go,
But I shall not be home enough
To know!





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