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Vera Kilgore Heilig: Her Poetry Lives (2017) H. Morris Williams, Marie Law Haire

Ambivalence

Seeing the young go streaming by

I feel a strange desire to cry.
I do not know, to tell the truth,

If it is for my own lost youth
Or for the young themselves I sigh.

I am not sure, I say, if I
Feel envious or compassionate

As youth goes rushing by my gate.

Niggard

I gave a cup of water in His name
To one I knew was thirsty — but, oh shame!

I held my crystal and good china back,

And gave it in a cup that had a crack.

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