And have we lost the right To look on a blooming bough With… - Zoë Akins

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And have we lost the right
To look on a blooming bough
Without remembering how
Once with high promising
We were a part of spring—
We who are now the dead
Leaves of other years strewn where flowers spread?

Zoë Akins

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Zoe Byrd Akins (October 30, 1886 – October 29, 1958) was an American playwright, poet, and author. She won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for drama for The Old Maid.

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