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MAIN STREET AND OTHER POEMS


A BLUE VALENTINE (continued)

When you come to pay your devoir to Our Lady,
I beg you, say to her:
"Madame, a poor poet, one of your singing servants yet on earth,
Has asked me to say that at this moment he is especially grateful to you
For wearing a blue gown."


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