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Bliss Carman · Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics

Poem 16 of 100 · Book I

In the apple boughs the coolness

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In the apple boughs the coolness
Murmurs, and the grey leaves flicker
Where sleep wanders.

In this garden all the hot noon
I await thy fluttering footfall
Through the twilight.

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