Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CLIFF KLINGENHAGEN, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON


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First Line: Cliff klingenhagen had me in to dine
Last Line: As happy as cliff klingenhagen is.


Cliff Klingenhagen had me in to dine
With him one day; and after soup and meat,
And all the other things there were to eat,
Cliff took two glasses and filled one with wine
And one with wormwood. Then, without a sign
For me to choose at all, he took the draught
Of bitterness himself, and lightly quaffed
It off, and said the other one was mine.

And when I asked him what the deuce he meant
By doing that, he only looked at me
And grinned, and said it was a way of his.
And though I know the fellow, I have spent
Long time a-wondering when I shall be
As happy as Cliff Klingenhagen is.






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