Page:Edna St. Vincent Millay - A Few Figs from Thistles.djvu/19

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MACDOUGAL STREET

But he caught the quaint Italian quip she flung him from the gutter;
(What can there be to cry about that I should lie and cry?)

He laid his darling hand upon her little black head,
(I wish I were a ragged child with ear-rings in my ears!)
And he said she was a baggage to have said what she had said;

(Truly I shall be ill unless I stop these tears!)

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