My Amazon

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Title:     My Amazon
Author: Eric Mackay [More Titles by Mackay]

I.

My Love is a lady fair and free,
A lady fair from over the sea,
And she hath eyes that pierce my breast
And rob my spirit of peace and rest.


II.

A youthful warrior, warm and young,
She takes me prisoner with her tongue,
Aye! and she keeps me,--on parole,--
Till paid the ransom of my soul.


III.

I swear the foeman, arm'd for war
From cap-à-pie, with many a scar,
More mercy finds for prostrate foe
Than she who deals me never a blow.


IV.

And so 'twill be, this many a day;
She comes to wound, if not to slay.
But in my dreams,--in honied sleep,--
'Tis I to smile, and she to weep!

[The end]
Eric Mackay's poem: My Amazon

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