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Sara Teasdale

I made you many and many a song,
 Yet never one told all you are —
It was as though a net of words
 Were flung to catch a star;

It was as though I curved my hand
 And dipped sea-water eagerly,
Only to find it lost the blue
 Dark splendor of the sea.

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From Flame and Shadow | Macmillian, 1920

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