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Going - to - Her!
Happy - Letter! Tell Her -
Tell Her - the page I never
wrote!
Tell Her, I only said -
the Syntax -
And left the Verb
and the Pronoun - out!
Tell Her just how the
fingers - hurried -
Then - how they - stammered -
slow - slow -
And then - you wished
you had eyes - in your
pages -
So you could see - what moved -
them - so -
Tell Her - it was'nt
a practised Writer -
You guessed -
From the way the sen -
tence
- toiled -
You could hear the
Boddice - tug - behind you -
As if it held but the
might of a Child!
You almost pitied - it -
you - it worked so -
Tell Her - No - you may
quibble - there -
For it would split Her
Heart - to know it -
And then - you and I -
were silenter!
Tell Her - Day - finished -
before we - finished -
And the old Clock
kept neighing - "Day"!
And you - got sleepy -
And begged to be ended -
What could - it hinder
so - to say?
Tell Her - just how she
sealed - you - Cautious!
But - if she ask "where you are hid" - until the
evening -
Ah! Be bashful!
Gesture Coquette -
And shake your Head!
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