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DEDICATION

To

H. S. T.

15·viii·15

FAIN had I given precious things and sweet,
But having neither frankincense nor gem.
Only sad flowers—last year' s fading yield
Gathered about that hitter harvest field—
I made a sorry garland out of them.
And laid it where immortelles had been meet.