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THE RAINBOW by EFFIE WALLER SMITH

First Line: LOVE IS A RAINBOW THAT APPEARS
Last Line: IF LOVE'S CLEAR RAINBOW DID NOT GLEAM!
Subject(s): LIFE; LOVE; RAINBOWS;

Love is a rainbow that appears
When heaven's sunshine lights earth's tears.

All varied colors of the light
Within its beauteous arch unite:

There Passion's glowing crimson hue
Burns near Truth's rich and deathless blue;

And Jealousy's green lights unfold
'Mid Pleasure's tints of flame and gold.

O dark life's stormy sky would seem,
If love's clear rainbow did not gleam!



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