Song

III

by E.E. Cummings

Thy fingers make early flowers of

all things.

thy hair mostly the hours love:

a smoothness which

5  

sings, saying

(though love be a day)

do not fear, we will go amaying.

thy whitest feet crisply are straying.

Always

10  

thy moist eyes are at kisses playing,

whose strangeness much

says; singing

(though love be a day)

for which girl art thou flowers bringing?

15  

To be thy lips is a sweet thing

and small.

Death, Thee i call rich beyond wishing

if this thou catch,

else missing.

20  

(though love be a day

and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing).








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