Valentine To The Girl In Black

A poem by Ellis Parker Butler

In hand I take this pen of mine
To write you, sweet, a valentine;
I’d take your dainty hand instead,
But—you’re a drawing - I am wed—
And that is why, you understand,
I only take my pen in hand.

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