The Fawn
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892 to 1950
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There it was I saw what I shall never ______
And never retrieve.
Monstrous and beautiful to human eyes, ______ to
believe,
He lay, yet there he lay,
Asleep ______ the moss, his head on his polished cleft
small ______ hoves,
The child of the doe, the dappled child ______ the deer.
Surely his mother had never said, "Lie ______
Till I return," so spotty and plain to ______
On the green moss lay he.
His eyes had opened; he considered me.
I would have given more than ______ care to say
To thrifty ears, might I have ______ him for my friend
One moment only of that ______ day:
Might I have had the acceptance, not the ______
Of those clear eyes;
Might I have been for ______ in the bough above
Or the root beneath his ______ bed,
A part of the forest, seen without surprise.
______ it alarm, or was it the wind of my ______ lest he
depart
That jerked him to his jointy knees,
And sent him crashing off, leaping and stumbling
On ______ new legs, between the stems of the white
trees?