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Pine,
Rose and Fleur de Lis
by
Susie Frances Harrison
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DANGER
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Well!
Let him sleep! Time enough to awake
When sunset ushers a kind release,
When cooling shadows the raft overtake.
For Madelon’s heart will never break
For
Alphonse, but for Verrier, fils,
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| So—let
him sleep. Time enough to awake
When Verrier, dressed for Madelon’s sake
In his best, is up the river a piece,
When cooling shadows the raft overtake.
A Carman—she – whose eyelashes make
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Havoc
with all—old Boucher’s niece—
So! Let him sleep, time enough to awake,
For a desperate thing is a bad heart-ache,
And one that may not entirely cease
When cooling shadows the raft overtake.
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If they met, who knows—a spring, a shake,
A jack-knife, deadly as Malay creece—
Hush! Let him sleep! Time enough to awake
When cooling shadows the raft overtake.
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