Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AFTERMATH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE


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AFTERMATH, by                    
First Line: We laughed and loved as the summer went
Last Line: Are you content?
Subject(s): Love; Past; Summer


We laughed and loved as the summer went,
And were content;
We sighed when love and the year grew cold,
That year of old.
'Twixt the laugh and the sigh was a paradise
Aglow with the light of your radiant eyes—
A place of cloudless dreams and skies,
Till we were wise!

Still summer comes with its balminess,
But my heart brims over with vague distress;
I miss the summer past and, yes,
Your old caress.
Dear love of old, is your heart as true
As mine to you?
Is to-day the past's equivalent—
Are you content?





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