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"Valentine to the Girl in Black" from Leslie's Monthly
by Ellis Parker Butler


from Leslie's Monthly
Valentine to the Girl in Black
by Ellis Parker Butler
In hand I take this pen of mine
To write you, sweet, a valentine;
I'd take your dainty hand instead,
But -- you're a drawing -- I am wed --
And that is why, you understand,
I only take my pen in hand.

Valentine


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