Elsa Gidlow: A Happy Song

Heaped sweets and a treasure
For a new sin to play with,
To pass a night and day with––
Heaped sweets for a pleasure.

Who and who will win them?
Who will carry virtue’s pall?
Of what use are sins at all
If someone does not sin them?

Who will take the treasure?
Run and run on light-winged feet;
Who will buy my sweetest sweet
With a new found pleasure?

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Public Domain.

From On a Grey Thread (Will Ransom, 1923) by Elsa Gidlow. 

One comment on “Elsa Gidlow: A Happy Song”

1. Jolly Watson

   August 16, 2022

   

   Please let me know if that is okay.

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