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THE UNWARY HEART by MARJORIE MEEKER

First Line: NOW THE GLITTERING DUST OF PAIN
Last Line: DARKLING BEAUTY HOLDS HER SEASON.
Subject(s): HEARTS;

Now the glittering dust of pain
Cobweb-light is on my days,
Do not haste, O heart, again
From your grief in gallant ways.

Though the charities of time
Fold charmed wings about you, heart,
There are hills of night to climb
Yet, O friend, before we part.

Do not rise, my heart, again
Singing in so-rash unreason . . .
In new petalage of pain
Darkling beauty holds her season.



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