After Parting

Sara Teasdale

Oh, I have sown my love so wide
 That he will find it everywhere;
It will awake him in the night,
 It will enfold him in the air.

I set my shadow in his sight
 And I have winged it with desire,
That it may be a cloud by day,
 And in the night a shaft of fire.

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