Love
The Return from Town
From The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923)
Love
As I sat down by Saddle Stream
To bathe my dusty feet there,
A boy was standing on the bridge
Any girl would meet there.
As I went over Woody Knob
And dipped into the hollow,
A youth was coming up the hill
Any maid would follow.
Then in I turned at my own gate,--
And nothing to be sad for--
To such a man as any wife
Would pass a pretty lad for.
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Millay, Edna St. Vincent. “The Return from Town.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/millay/101/.
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Millay, Edna St. Vincent. “The Return from Town.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/millay/101/.
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