Blanche Taylore Dickinson, "Poem" (1927)
AH, I know what happiness is. ...!
It is a timid little fawn
Creeping softly up to me
For one caress, then gone
Before I'm through with it ...
Away, like dark from dawn!
Well I know what happiness is ...!
It is the break of day that wears
A shining dew decked diadem ...
An aftermath of tears.
Fawn and dawn, emblems of joy ...
I've played with them for years,
And always they will slip away
Into the brush of another day.
Published in Caroling Dusk, 1927