Arts & Sciences
Song
From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics (1899)
Arts & Sciences
Years have flown since I knew thee first,
And I know thee as water is known of thirst:
Yet I knew thee of old at the first sweet sight,
And thou art strange to me, Love, to-night.
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MLA
Gilder, Richard Watson. “Song.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/gilder/1/.
Chicago
Gilder, Richard Watson. “Song.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/gilder/1/.
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