Sara Teasdale, comp. (1884–1933).
The Answering Voice: One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women. 1917.
Ada Foster Murray
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The slow, sad course of changeless years,
While in her burned her youth unspent,
Dulled sometimes by her gentle tears.
Sweet urgency of wedded days;
In dreams she watched her pale light change,
Into the steadfast altar blaze.
Her slender vestal flame and wept;
Ah, better were the house of love,
By blighting fire and tempest swept.