The Coin
Sara Teasdale * Track #13 On Flame and Shadow
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Album Flame and Shadow
- #1Blue Squills
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- #2Stars
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- #3What Do I Care?
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- #4Meadowlarks
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- #5Driftwood
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- #6I Have Loved Hours at Sea
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- #7August Moonrise
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- #8Places
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- #9Old Tunes
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- #10Only in Sleep
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- #11Redbirds
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- #12Sunset: St. Louis
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- #13The Coin
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- #14The Voice
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- #15Day and Night
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- #16Compensation
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- #17I Remembered
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- #18Oh You Are Coming
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- #19The Return
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- #20Gray Eyes
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- #21The Net
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- #22The Mystery
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- #23Open Windows
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- #24The New Moon
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- #25Eight O’Clock
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- #26Lost Things
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- #27Pain
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- #28The Broken Field
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- #29The Unseen
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- #30A Prayer
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- #31Spring Torrents
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- #32I Know the Stars
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- #33Understanding
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- #34Nightfall
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- #35It Is Not a Word
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- #36My Heart Is Heavy
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- #37The Nights Remember
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- #38Let It Be Forgotten
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- #39May Day
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- #40Since There Is No Escape
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- #41The Dreams of My Heart
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- #42A Little While
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- #43The Garden
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- #44The Wine
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- #45In a Cuban Garden
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- #46If I Must Go
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- #47In Spring, Santa Barbara
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- #48White Fog
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- #49Arcturus
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- #50Moonlight
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- #51Morning Song
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- #52Gray Fog
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- #53Bells
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- #54Lovely Chance
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- #55There Will Come Soft Rains
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- #56In a Garden
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- #57Nahant
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- #58Winter Stars
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- #59A Boy
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- #60Winter Dusk
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- #61The Unchanging
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- #62June Night
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- #63Like Barley Bending
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- #64Oh Day of Fire and Sun
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- #65I Thought of You
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- #66On the Dunes
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- #67Spray
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- #68If Death Is Kind
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- #69Thoughts
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- #70Faces
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- #71Evening: New York
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- #72Snowfall
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- #73The Silent Battle
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- #74The Sanctuary
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- #75At Sea
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- #76Dust
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- #77The Long Hill
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- #78Summer Storm
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- #79In the End
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- #80It Will Not Change
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- #81Change
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- #82Water Lilies
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- #83Did You Never Know?
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- #84The Treasure
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- #85The Storm
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- #86The Tree
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- #87At Midnight
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- #88Song Making
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- #89Alone
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- #90Red Maples
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- #91Debtor
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- #92The Wind in the Hemlock
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The Coin by Sara Teasdale
Performed by
Sara TeasdaleThe Coin Annotated
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.