Sara Teasdale Sara Teasdale Water Lilies
- If you have forgotten water lilies floating
- On a dark lake among mountains in the afternoon shade,
- If you have forgotten their wet, sleepy fragrance,
- Then you can return and not be afraid.
- But if you remember, then turn away forever
- To the plains and the prairies where pools are far apart,
- There ou will not come at dusk on closing water lilies,
- And the shadow of mountains will not fall on your heart.
- Sara Teasdale