Alchemy

Alchemy by Sara Teasdale

From Rivers to the Sea Part I

I LIFT my heart as spring lifts up
      A yellow daisy to the rain;
My heart will be a lovely cup
      Altho' it holds but pain.

For I shall learn from flower and leaf
      That color every drop they hold,
To change the lifeless wine of grief
      To living gold.

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