Riches (Teasdale)

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Riches by Sara Teasdale

From Love Songs Part III

I have no riches but my thoughts,
      Yet these are wealth enough for me;
My thoughts of you are golden coins
      Stamped in the mint of memory;

And I must spend them all in song,
      For thoughts, as well as gold, must be
Left on the hither side of death
      To gain their immortality.

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