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Title: Three Women

Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Release Date: November 27, 2008 [EBook #27336]

Language: English

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THREE WOMEN

BY

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

Author of "Poems of Passion," "Maurine," "Poems of
Pleasure," "How Salvator Won," "Custer and Other
Poems," "Men, Women and Emotions,"
"The Beautiful Land of Nod," Etc.

CHICAGO--NEW YORK

W. B. CONKEY COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

Entered according to act of Congress, In the year 1897, by

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London.

All Rights Reserved.

Made in the United States.

THREE WOMEN

_My love is young, so young;
Young is her cheek, and her throat,
And life is a song to be sung
With love the word for each note._

_Young is her cheek and her throat;
Her eyes have the smile o' May.
And love is the word for each note
In the song of my life to-day._

_Her eyes have the smile o' May;
Her heart is the heart of a dove,
And the song of my life to-day
Is love, beautiful love._

_Her heart is the heart of a dove,
Ah, would it but fly to my breast
Where lone, beautiful love,
Has made it a downy nest._

_Ah, would she but fly to my breast,
My love who is young, so young;
I have made her a downy nest
And life is a song to be sung._

THREE WOMEN.

I.

A dull little station, a man with the eye
Of a dreamer; a bevy of girls moving by;
A swift moving train and a hot Summer sun,
The curtain goes up, and our play is begun.
The drama of passion, of sorrow, of strife,
Which always is billed for the theatre Life.
It runs on forever, from year unto year,
With scarcely a change when new actors appear.
It is old as the world is--far older in truth,
For the world is a crude little planet of youth.
And back in the eras before