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The Last Lady

I have now no love nor lady,
Yet I do not wail bereft:
There are many, many beautiful ladies,
And in the world there is much love left.
I have now no love nor lady;
I have made a brave good-bye.
It is terrible not to have a lady
When the summer months run high.
And the summer and the autumn
And the winter may be gone;
But my mind is quite decided-
I shall have no other one.
It will need a greener spring-time
To seed new love in me.
But in another spring-time-
Ah-where shall I be?

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16 lines · 4 stanzas