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The Coin

by Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale

INTO my heart's treasury
I slipped a coin
That time cannot take
Nor a thief purloin,-
Oh better than the minting
Of a gold-crowned king
Is the safe-kept memory
Of a lovely thing.




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