The Net

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The Net
by 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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