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AFTER PARTING by MAUDE HAYNES

First Line: ALTHOUGH THE ROOM WHICH ONCE YOU KNEW
Last Line: BETWEEN AN APRIL DAY AND THIS!
Subject(s): ABSENCE; SEPARATION; ISOLATION;
Although the room which once you knew
And loved, is silent to your gait,
And knows no more the pungent tang
Your old pipe made as time grew late,

I find a poignant gladness just
To come in here, and sit, and touch
A book you loved, and used to read
To me. We had so very much!

I'll never seek again for peace
Nor know the joy and pain of bliss;
But I have known the heights and depths
Between an April day and this!



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