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"Valentine to the Girl in Black" from Leslie's Monthly

by Ellis Parker Butler
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    1904

  • Leslie's Monthly (February, 1904)   "Valentine to the Girl in Black"   A poem in six verses. Attributed to "E. P. B." With a drawing by H. Imbrie. Page 470.  [HARPER]

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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