A Canker In The Heart

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Title:     A Canker In The Heart
Author: Edward Powys Mathers [More Titles by Mathers]

I made a bitter song
When I was a boy,
About a girl
With hot earth-coloured hair,
Who lived with me
And left me.

I made a sour song
On her marriage-day,
That ever his kisses
Would be ghosts of mine,
And ever the measure
Of his halting love
Flow to my music.

It was a silly song,
Dear wife with cool black hair,
And yet when I recall
(At night with you asleep)
That once you gave yourself
Before we met,
I do not quite well know
What song to make.

From the Burmese (nineteenth century) (? by Asmapur).

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Edward Powys Mathers's poem: Canker In The Heart

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