Poems (Mary Coleridge)/Poem 85

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Come back to me my swallowAnd leave me not forlorn,Into the woods I followThe footsteps of the morn.I thread the rustling hollowBefore the day is born,Come back to me my swallowAnd leave me not forlorn! The light was dark without thee,My bird of April days,I almost came to doubt theeWhen thou hadst gone thy ways—The sunshine round about thee—Into the land of rays.The light was dark without thee,My bird of April days.