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Sara Teasdale

Come, when the pale moon like a petal
 Floats in the pearly dusk of spring,
Come with outstretched arms to take me,
 Come with lips pursed up to cling.
Come, for life is a frail moth flying
 Caught in the web of the years that pass,
And soon we two,so warm and eager,
 Will be as the gray stones in the grass.

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