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Thomas R. Lounsbury, ed. (1838–1915). Yale Book of American Verse. 1912.

Henry Cuyler Bunner 1855–1896

Henry Cuyler Bunner

235 Feminine

SHE might have known it in the earlier Spring,

That all my heart with vague desire was stirred;

And, ere the Summer winds had taken wing,

I told her; but she smiled and said no word.

The Autumn’s eager hand his red gold grasped,

And she was silent; till from skies grown drear

Fell soft one fine, first snow-flake, and she clasped

My neck and cried, “Love, we have lost a year!”