<h3><SPAN name="A_WAIF" name="A_WAIF"></SPAN>A WAIF.</h3>
<p>Do you know what it is to be vagrant born?
<br/>A waif is only a waif. And so,
<br/>For another idle hour I sit,
<br/>In large content while the fire burns low.
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<br/>I gossip here to my crony heart
<br/>Of the day just over, and count it one
<br/>Of the royal elemental days,
<br/>Though its dreams were few and its deeds were none.
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<br/>Outside, the winter; inside, the warmth
<br/>And a sweet oblivion of turmoil. Why?
<br/>All for a gentle girlish hand
<br/>With its warm and lingering good-bye.</p>
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