Francis Turner


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This poem was included in the original 1915 edition.

I COULD not run or play In boyhood.
In manhood I could only sip the cup,
Not drink-- For scarlet-fever left my heart diseased.
Yet I lie here
Soothed by a secret none but Mary knows:
There is a garden of acacia,
Catalpa trees, and arbors sweet with vines--
There on that afternoon in June By Mary's side--
Kissing her with my soul upon my lips
It suddenly took flight.
 

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