A Chorus Girl
| ←Thou in whose sword-great story shine the deeds | A Chorus Girl (1920) by |
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| First published in Eight Harvard Poets in 1917. |
When thou hast taken thy last applause, and when
The final curtain strikes the world away,
Leaving to shadowy silence and dismay
That stage which shall not know thy smile again,
Lingering a little while I see thee then
Ponder the tinsel part they let thee play;
I see the red mouth tarnished, the face grey,
And smileless silent eyes of Magdalen.
The lights have laughed their last; without, the street
Darkling, awaiteth her whose feet have trod
The silly souls of men to golden dust.
She pauses, on the lintel of defeat,
Her heart breaks in a smile --— and she is Lust...
Mine also, little painted poem of God.
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