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“A Birthday Candle”

Donald Justice

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Missing lines?
2002-12-06
Added by: Kate
I believe you're missing the last half of the poem.

From where the site leaves off:

"Before the light could die,

If I had known what to wish,

As once I must have known,

Bending above the clean,

Candlelit tablecloth

To blow them out with a breath."

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