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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ONLY YESTERDAY, by PAUL GEORGE YAZOLINO
First Line: Perhaps, to you, it was
Last Line: Only yesterday.
Subject(s): Memory
First Line: Perhaps, to you, it was
Last Line: Only yesterday.
Subject(s): Memory
Perhaps, to you, it was
In age long, long ago that we first met --
That we vowed our love eternal,
While aching life still chose to rest within our breast --
You held my hand beside that murmuring stream
That played in undertone
The earth's most beautiful love song --
That we strolled 'neath boughs of evergreen
So neatly strewn in nature's lap --
And the moon pierced its light fingers
Through the long branches to find us,
And put its whole hand upon your hair --
When you were parent to the birth in me of life --
Of breach in long, hot, sandy stretch --
And I said those little things that made you laugh --
And how you made me cry a little in heavenly joy --
When I poured out all the life and soul
In my last throb of shaking heart ...
And you in taking nothing, took my all!
To you, perhaps, 'twas all a making
In a time of distant past.
To me, it is a living (though brief and withered) of
only yesterday.
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