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 I wonder if you knew. (Beloved hands! Somehow I cannot seem to see them still. Somehow I cannot scem to see the dust In your bright hair.) What is the need of Heaven When earth can be so sweet?—If only God Had let us love,—and show the world the way! Strange cancellings must ink th' eternal books When love-crossed-out will bring the answer right! That first sweet-pea! I wonder where it is. It seems to me I laid it down somewhere, And yet,—I am not sure. I am not sure, Even, if it was white or pink; for then Twas much like any other flower to me, Save that it was the first. I did not know, Then, that it was the last. If I had known— But then, it does not matter. Strange how few,