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James Whitcomb Riley - Dear HandsJames Whitcomb Riley - Dear Hands
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The touches of her hands are like the fall     Of velvet snowflakes; like the touch of down   The peach just brushes `gainst the garden wall;   The flossy fondlings of the thistle-wisp     Caught in the crinkle of a leaf of brown   The blighting frost hath turned from green to crisp.   Soft as the falling of the dusk at night,   The touches of her hands, and the delight--     The touches of her hands!   The touches of her hands are like the dew   That falls so softly down no one e`er knew   The touch thereof save lovers like to one   Astray in lights where ranged Endymion.   O rarely soft, the touches of her hands,   As drowsy zephyrs in enchanted lands;     Or pulse of dying fay; or fairy sighs,   Or--in between the midnight and the dawn,   When long unrest and tears and fears are gone--     Sleep, smoothing down the lids of weary eyes.
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