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THE RIFT by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS

First Line: WE SPOKE NO WORD AND WE GAVE NO LOOK
Last Line: AND NEITHER OF US KNEW WHY.
Subject(s): QUARRELS; ARGUMENTS; DISAGREEMENTS;
We spoke no word and we gave no look,
But we quarrelled, my love and I;
And our hearts ran dead as an empty brook,
Though neither of us knew why.

And many a time in the later years,
With reason enough, God wot,
We have come to reproaches and wrath and tears,
That soon were gone and forgot;

But still we remember the hour malign,
And must till the day we die, --
The hour when we quarrelled and made no sign,
And neither of us knew why.



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