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1874–1950

MY HEART STOOD EMPTY

Arthur Stringer

My heart stood empty and bare, So I hung it with thoughts of a woman. The remembered ways of this woman Hung sweet in my heart.

So I followed where thought should lead, And it led to her feet. But the mouth of this woman was pain, And the love of this woman, regret;

And now only the thought Of all those remembered thoughts Of remembered ways, Is shut in my heart!

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