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Sara Teasdale
August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933 / Missouri / United States
The Coin
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INTO my heart's treasury
I slipped a coin
That time cannot take
Nor a thief purloin,—
Oh better than the minting
Of a gold-crowned king
Is the safe-kept memory
Of a lovely thing.
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