Aline Mary Capp, item 89

• October 25, 2017 18:54:43 Thomas A. Lingner

  Keeping a Heart
  

  If one should give me a heart to keep,
  

       With love for the golden key,

  The giver might live at ease or Sleep,
  

  It should ne'er know pain, be weary, or weep,
  

       The heart watched over by me.
  

                                           _____
  

  I would keep that heart as a casket hid
  

       Where precious jewels are ranged,
  

  A memory each; as you raise the lid,
  

  You think you love again as you did.
  

       Of old, & nothing seems changed.
  

                                _______
  

  How should I tremble day after day,
  

       As I touched with the golden key,

  Lest Aught in that heart were changed, or say
  

  That another had stolen one thought away
  

       And did it not open to me.
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• February 13, 2017 16:45:35 Stefania Biron

  Keeping a Heart
  

  If one should give me a heart to keep,
  

       With love for the golden "key,

  The giver might lieve at ease or Sleep,
  

  It should ne'er know pain, be weary ... of weep,
  

       The heart ... watched by me.
  

                                           _____
  

  I would keep that heart as a casket hid
  

       Where precious jewels are ranged,
  

  A memory each, as you raise the lid,
  

  You think you love again as you did.
  

       Of old, & nothing seems changed.
  

                                _______
  

  How should I tremble day after day,
  

       As I touched whith the golden key,
  

  Lest Aught in that heart were chenged, or say
  

  That another had stolen one throught away
  

       And did it not open to me.
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• February 13, 2017 16:45:24 Stefania Biron

  Keeping a Heart
  

  If one should give me a heart to keep,
  

       With love for the golden "key,

  The giver might lieve at ease or Sleep,
  

  It should ne'er know pain, be weary ... of weep,
  

       The heart ... watched by me.
  

                                           _____
  

  I would keep that heart as a casket hid
  

       Where precious jewels are ranged,
  

  A memory each, as you raise the lid,
  

  You think you love again as you did.
  

       Of old, & nothing seems changed.
  

                                _______
  

  How should I tremble day after day,
  

       As I touched whith the golden key,
  

  Lest Aught in that heart were chenged, or say
  

  That another had stolen one throught away
  

       And did it not open to me.
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• February 13, 2017 16:32:48 Stefania Biron

  Keeping a Heart
  

  If one should give me a heart to keep,
  

       With love
  

  
  

  
  

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