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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920.

Resemblance

I HAVE on mine no likeness

To your fairy queenlike face,

No sign in all my body

Of any of your grace.

I might have been a changeling,

As well have been a son,

As to grow up your daughter

And look like anyone.

But where your two breasts parted

A small mark darkened you,

And over my heart’s beating

I have the same scar too.

A little seal and golden,

Whereby it shall be known

That you have shaped and borne me

And stamped me as your own!

Contemporary Verse