The Wish For A Chaplet

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Title:     The Wish For A Chaplet
Author: Helen Gray Cone [More Titles by Cone]

Vineleaf and rose I would my chaplet make:
I would my word were wine for all men's sake.
Pure from the pressing of the stainless feet
Of unblamed Hours, and for an altar meet.

Vineleaf and rose: I would, had I the art,
Distil, to lasting sweet, Joy's rosy heart,
That no sere autumn should its fragrance wrong,
Closed in the crystal glass of slender song.

[The end]
Helen Gray Cone's poem: Wish For A Chaplet

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