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Lines Written On The Sunny Side Of Frankfort Street

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Title:     Lines Written On The Sunny Side Of Frankfort Street
Author: Franklin P. Adams [More Titles by Adams]

Sporting with Amaryllis in the shade,
(I credit Milton in parenthesis),
Among the speculations that she made
Was this:

"When"--these her very words--"when you return,
A slave to duty's harsh commanding call,
Will you, I wonder, ever sigh and yearn
At all?"

Doubt, honest doubt, sat then upon my brow.
(Emotion is a thing I do not plan.)
I could not fairly answer then, but now
I can.

Yes, Amaryllis, I can tell you this,
Can answer publicly and unafraid:
You haven't any notion how I miss
The shade.




[The end]
Franklin P. Adams's poem: Lines Written On The Sunny Side Of Frankfort Street

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