I HAD A GUINEA GOLDEN
by: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- HAD a guinea golden;
- I lost it in the sand,
- And though the sum was simple,
- And pounds were in the land,
- Still had it such a value
- Unto my frugal eye,
- That when I could not find it
- I sat me down to sigh.
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- I had a crimson robin
- Who sang full many a day,
- But when the woods were painted
- He, too, did fly away.
- Time brought me other robins,--
- Their ballads were the same,--
- Still for my missing troubadour
- I kept the "house at hame."
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- I had a star in heaven;
- One Pleiad was its name,
- And when I was not heeding
- It wandered from the same.
- And though the skies are crowded,
- And all the night ashine,
- I do not care about it,
- Since none of them are mine.
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- My story has a moral:
- I have a missing friend,--
- Pleiad its name, and robin,
- And guinea in the sand,--
- And when this mournful ditty,
- Accompanied with tear,
- Shall meet the eye of traitor
- In country far from here,
- Grant that repentance solemn
- May seize upon his mind,
- And he no consolation
- Beneath the sun may find.
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