Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE BOAST, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE


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First Line: I do not need you now! Thus do I end
Last Line: "I do not need you now!"
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of


I DO not need you now! Thus do I end
Our days together, O beloved friend;
Thus do I shake all remnants of the past
Out of my life; and thus I say at last,
"I do not need you now!"

I do not need you now! Our love is done,
And in this hour of parting, one by one
I watch the years we spent together fade
Into the cold oblivion I have made.
I do not need you now!

I do not need you now! The faith is gone
That made our love, from dawn to silver dawn,
A thing most wonderful. Bravely I cry
(Exulting in the shame of my deep lie!),
"I do not need you now!"





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