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Love Songs (1917)/Riches

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New York: Macmillan Co., page 71

RICHES

I have no riches but my thoughts,
Yet these are wealth enough for me;
My thoughts of you are golden coins
Stamped in the mint of memory;


And I must spend them all in song,
For thoughts, as well as gold, must be
Left on the hither side of death
To gain their immortality.