Second Choice
If you had a second choice,
time to view and change and error,
would you call with bated voice,
to a bonny lass so fairer?
Would you pull the clockwork back,
stop the Autumn leaves from falling,
seize the reapers hood so slack,
pull him from his date of calling?
Would you pull from starry sky,
set the planets off asunder,
make the heavens answer why,
there's no answer when you wonder?
Would you listen if you knew,
would you set this lonely error,
on a shelf that's painted blue,
like her bonny eyes so fairer?
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