The Weed

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Title:     The Weed
Author: Edward Shanks [More Titles by Shanks]

My mother told me this for true
That there behind the mountains,
That wear the mists about their feet
And clouds about their summits,
There grows the weed Forgetfulness,
It grows there in the gullies.

If I but knew the way thereto,
Three days long would I wander
And pick a handful of the weed
And drink it steeped in honey,
That so I might forget your mouth
A thousand times that kissed me.

[The end]
Edward Shanks's poem: Weed

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