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Lewis Alexander, "Wishes" (1929)

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Wishes

O, for a breast to zveep upon
   The tears that fain would flow,
For I am weighted dozen with grief
   No other heart coidd know.

O, for a dark abyss in zvhich
   I soon could lay my head;
And slumber on and dream and dream
   'Til earth gives up her dead.

And waking find that which was grief
   Consumed by time's decay,
Feeling my spirit wing the heights
   Against the light of day.


Published in The Carolina Magazine, April 1929

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