Sara Teasdale, comp. (1884–1933).
The Answering Voice: One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women. 1917. | | | | An Old Song | | By Fannie Stearns Davis |
| | | AND if I came not again | |
| After certain days; | |
| If no morning sun or rain | |
| Met me on their ways; | |
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| If the meadows knew no more | 5 |
| How my feet go free, | |
| And the folded hills forbore | |
| Any speech of me; | |
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| If you did not find me here, | |
| At the door at night, | 10 |
| And the cold hearth kept no cheer, | |
| And the panes no light;— | |
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| Oh, if I came not again, | |
| Would you miss me much? | |
| Would your fingers once be fain | 15 |
| Of my wandering touch? | |
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| Would you dream me at your side | |
| In the waking wood, | |
| Where the old spring hungers hide | |
| In blue solitude? | 20 |
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| Would you wonder where I passed, | |
| Into joy or pain? | |
| Oh, to know you cared, at last, | |
| Came I not again! | | | | |
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