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If you were coming in the fall · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: If you were coming in the fall, if you were
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  Speaker 1: coming in the fall, I'd brush the summer by with
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  Speaker 1: half a smile and half a spurn as housewives do
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  Speaker 1: a fly. If I could see you in a year,
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  Speaker 1: I'd wind the months in balls and put them each
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  Speaker 1: in separate drawers until their time befalls. If only centuries delayed,
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  Speaker 1: I'd count them on my hand, subtracting till my fingers
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  Speaker 1: dropped into Van Diemen's land. If certain, When this life
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  Speaker 1: was out, that yours and mine should be, I'd toss
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  Speaker 1: it yonder like a rind and taste eternity. But now,
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  Speaker 1: all ignorant of the length of time's uncertain wing, it
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  Speaker 1: goads me like the goblin bee that will not state
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  Speaker 1: its sting.