To Caroline (Johns)

To Caroline by Orrick Glenday Johns

To Orrick's first wife, Caroline Blackmun

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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