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Unsigned letter from soldier "Over There",,"addressed "To the little blond girl who played the piano at the Y.M.C.A. 1917.

^[[1917]]

Umraah Regnet.

= 1 =

You asked for a poem, girlie,
In your innocent, trustful way,
So I hope you'll forgive this rude attempt
To sing you a little lay.

= 2 =

My poem shall be of a little girl,
With a smile like the birth of day,
When the radiant sun breaks his eastern bars,
and chases night away.

= 3 =
Her eyes are but heaven-banished stars,
Her breath like the breath of Spring,
Laden with perfume from a thousand flowers
That awake when the robins sing

= 4 =
Her hair is a golden coronet
Of lustrous wave, and bright
And crowns her shapely little head
Like a gloriole of light