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Love Transposed
Love’s transposed
So it goes
To wit, a sunny day
For out among the evergreen
In life hitherto serene
I find myself at play
Warbled song
I move among
Birds of gay display
This sward beyond the hinterland
Gives life these trills
All day
Red is Rose Mary
Deep in rosary
My escort to satisfy
So long may she suffer
Before I stop her
And win her trust by my display
For I tread fields
For love it feels
On this fair spring day,
I’m sprung outdoors
But hath joined the Carmelites
On some holy hill
But one more look to Rose Mary
And alas I’m at peaceful ease
Weaving through the thicket
In dappled light beneath the trees
I place my hand toward her gland
But pull back before she sees
