The Tree In Pamelas Garden
Pamela was too gentle to deceive
Her roses.
"Let the men stay where they are,"
She said, "and if Apollo's avatar
Be one of them, I shall not have to grieve.
"
And so she made all Tilbury Town believe
She sighed a little more for the North Star
Than over men, and only in so far
As she was in a garden was like Eve.
Her neighbors—doing all that neighbors can
To make romance of reticence meanwhile—
Seeing that she had never loved a man,
Wished Pamela had a cat, or a small bird,
And only would have wondered at her smile
Could they have seen that she had overheard.
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
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