Edgar Albert Guest Girl Poems

Don't worry, little girl,
Don't you let one golden curl
Get awry.
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The Summer girl
In peek-a-boos
And open hose
And narrow shoes,
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ALL women are lovely and radiantly fair
In the magazine pages today,
They all have a mop of luxuriant hair,
In the magazine pages today.
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Oh, little girl with eyes of brown
And smiles that fairly light the town,
I wonder if you really know
Just why it is we love you so,
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The Girl He Left Behind
We used to think her frivolous—you know how
parents are,
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