by Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856 - 1935)

Remembrance
Language: English 
Let all the towns remember you,
And tell it out with mellow tongue,
Down April yards at fall of dew —
That you were fair, that you were young.

A wind at dusk shaken to and fro
Against a melon-colored pane;
White flags in a brief, wistful row;
An only star after a rain.

But let this secret keep unsung;
Nor wise nor fool must it divine,
And tell it out with April tongue —
That all this loveliness was mine!

Confirmed with Lizette Woodworth Reese, Wild Cherry, Baltimore, Md: The Norman, Remington Co, 1923.


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This text was added to the website: 2022-01-22
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