494 - Going to Him! Happy Letter!
Going to Him! Happy Letter!
Tell Him - Tell Him the page I didn't write - Tell Him - I only said the Syntax - And left the Verb and the pronoun out - Tell Him just how the fingers hurried - Then - how they waded - slow - slow - And then you wished you had eyes in your pages - So you could see what moved them so - Tell Him - it wasn't a Practised Writer - You guessed - from the way the sentence toiled - You could hear the Bodice tug, behind you - As if it held but the might of a child - You almost pitied it - you - it worked so - Tell Him - no - you may quibble there - For it would split His Heart, to know it - And then You and I, were silenter. Tell Him - Night finished - before we finished - And the Old Clock kept neighing "Day"! And you - got sleepy - and begged to be ended - What could it hinder so - to say? Tell Him - just how she sealed you - Cautious! But - if He ask where you are hid Until tomorrow - Happy letter! Gesture Coquette - and shake your Head! |
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