At a Dinner Party

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Author
Amy Levy
Year
1889
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WITH fruit and flowers the board is deckt,
  The wine and laughter flow ;
I'll not complain—could one expect
  So dull a world to know ?

You look across the fruit and flowers,
  My glance your glances find.—
It is our secret, only ours,
  Since all the world is blind.

Title of volume of first printing
A London Plane-Tree and Other Verses
Publisher
T. Fisher Unwin
Page numbers in original volume
87