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I DID NOT THINK by ELEANOR A. FAY

First Line: I DID NOT THINK IN THAT FAIR SPRING
Last Line: LOVE WAS A GAME, AND I HAVE LOST.
Subject(s): LOVE - COMPLAINTS;
I did not think in that fair spring
That I would count the heavy cost
Of love that for the moment meant
No anxious shadows, flecked and crossed,
Nor endless vistas, long and lone.

I did not think the winter's frost
Would clothe in stark and deadly white
The heart that once so gaily tossed
Its joy along the rainbow paths, --
Love was a game, and I have lost.



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