Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BALLADE BY THE FIRE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON


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First Line: Slowly I smoke and hug my knee
Last Line: As one by one the phantoms go.


Slowly I smoke and hug my knee,
The while a witless masquerade
Of things that only children see
Floats in a mist of light and shade:
They pass, a flimsy cavalcade,
And with a weak, remindful glow,
The falling embers break and fade,
As one by one the phantoms go.






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