THE INTRUDER
ACROSS my book your hand augustly reaches— |
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| Thrusts it away. |
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| I turn impatient to the window, watching |
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| The tossed trees’ play, |
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| March sunshine glinting on a chilly rain-pool | |
| That snow-banks frame. |
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| A lusty wind comes gusting on its errand |
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| And names your name. |
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| Captive, defeated, having striven I yield me |
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| To thought awhile; | |
| Letting the sunlight on the roughened waters |
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| Bear me your smile; |
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| Hearing the mischief-making wind that named you |
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| Question afresh |
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| If spirit find in spirit full contentment | |
Only through flesh.
Grace Stone Coates
( eloquent voice from Montana circa 1921 )
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