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I SHOULD LIKE TO LIVE IN A BALLAD WORLD by EDA LOU WALTON

First Line: I SHOULD LIKE TO LIVE AS A BALLAD MAID
Last Line: OF A FATE SIX STANZAS LONG.
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS;
I should like to live as a ballad maid
Who loves, is loved, and dies,
Or bears four sons as a matron staid
To her lord's amazed eyes.

Birth, and youth, and womanhood,
Ripe lips and golden hair,
Death and a lover understood,
And a black silk shroud to wear;

And all the long years left untold
The long hours left unsaid,
While swift, rare moments of life unfold
Bronze and silver and red.

I should like to live in a ballad world
While vivid lips of song
My leaping, lingering tale unfurled
Of a fate six stanzas long.



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