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Sara Teasdale

Into my heart’s treasury
 I slipped a coin
That time cannot take
 Nor a thief purloin, —
Oh better than the minting
 Of a gold-crowned king
Is the safe-kept memory
 Of a lovely thing.

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From Flame and Shadow | Macmillian, 1920

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