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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUMMER SONATA, by RIVERS LODGE
First Line: Oh, could we walk again, I wonder
Last Line: When we came limping in at dawn?
Subject(s): Summer
First Line: Oh, could we walk again, I wonder
Last Line: When we came limping in at dawn?
Subject(s): Summer
Oh, could we walk again, I wonder,
Shoulder to heart, as we used to do,
Watching shadows on a cement walk --
Sheer magic for us two --
Honeysuckle, with its pale perfume,
Faintly unreal, and through the night,
White, tender ghosts of roses loom,
Nebulous masses in the light?
Could we move again in summer's spell,
Believe that loveliness lives on,
Drinking deep of subtle rapture --
Or would you, unromantic, yawn,
And I be conjuring the tale I'd tell,
When we came limping in at dawn?
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