To Caroline (Johns)
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| My first love was a fair girl |
| with ways forever new; |
| And hair a sunlight yellow, |
| and eyes a morning blue. |
| I wondered if her face |
| was not a girl's again. |
| And if she found the flowers |
| thick about the glen. |
| And if among her thoughts |
| so dark we couldn't see, |
| It only was her reason |
| came to make her free. |
| Beauty blue and beauty white, |
| beauty of the day and night, |
| Make her step be light and proud |
| going in a gown of cloud. |
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