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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

Descriptive Poems: I. Personal: Great Writers

To Madame de Sevigné

Mathieu de Montreuil (1620–1691)

Playing Blind-Man’s-Buff

YOU charm when you talk, walk, or move,

Still more on this day than another:

When blinded—you ’re taken for Love;

When the bandage is off—for his mother!