IN EXPLANATION
by: Walter Learned (1847-?)
 ER lips
were so near
- That -- what else could I do?
- You'll be angry, I fear.
- But her lips were so near--
- Well, I can't make it clear,
- Or explain it to you.
- But -- her lips were so near
- That -- what else could I do?
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"In Explanation" is reprinted
from The Little Book of American Poets: 1787-1900. Ed.
Jessie B. Rittenhouse. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1915. |
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