Caroling Dusk/Fragment

by Jessie Redmon Fauset

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FRAGMENT

The breath of life imbued those few dim days!Yet all we had was this,—A flashing smile, a touch of hands, and onceA fleeting kiss.

Blank futile death inheres these years between!Still naught have you and I But frozen tears, and stifled words, and onceA sharp caught cry.