Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LILACS, by ROSE TILLOTSON


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LILACS, by                    
First Line: A friend had failed me in some little thing
Last Line: With purple lilacs, drenched in spring-sweet rain.
Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends


A friend had failed me in some little thing.
"I shall not trust again who thus could fail,"
I wrote in bitter haste, glanced outward where the rain,
In darts of silver kissed the lilacs pale.

And all the foolish rancor left my heart
And Beauty filled it very full again.
I slowly tore the written page apart
And stood and watched my lilacs in the rain.
I could not write unlovely words or feel
An unmeant slight when just beyond the pane
Beauty stood beckoning, my hurt to heal
With purple lilacs, drenched in spring-sweet rain.





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