<h2><SPAN name="chap75"></SPAN>A VALENTINE, UNSENT</h2>
<p class="poem">
Stay, flaming rose, ’twould grieve her heart<br/>
To see you fade away,<br/>
Unloved, unwelcome and apart<br/>
From every joy to-day.<br/>
<br/>
Once long ago your tale was new,<br/>
Days distant yet so dear;<br/>
Why say her lover still is true,<br/>
When that is all her fear?<br/>
<br/>
Why thus recall another’s pain,<br/>
Her tender heart to fret?<br/>
Best let her think he loves again,<br/>
Who never can forget!<br/></p>
<p class="left">
MARGARET PERRY</p>
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