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1876–1944

UP A LITTLE ROAD

Helen Hay Whitney

Up a little road with the morning in my arms, Drenched with dew and tipsy with the madness of the May, Leafy fingers on my face, I stop not for your charms! Love is waiting round the turn, to be my Love to-day.

Shouting as I ride on the springing ringing sod, Ah! my pony knows the goal to which his course is laid, Galloping thro’ dawn he knows he bears a little god Bacchus-mad with happiness who burns to meet his maid.

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