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Romance

Edwin Arlington Robinson

I

 Boys

We were all boys, and three of us were friends;
And we were more than friends, it seemed to me:—
Yes, we were more than brothers then, we three. . . .
Brothers? . . .  But we were boys, and there it ends.


  II

 James Wetherell

We never half believed the stuff
They told about James Wetherell;
We always liked him well enough,
And always tried to use him well;
But now some things have come to light,
And James has vanished from our view,—
There is n’t very much to write,
There is n’t very much to do.
Online text © 1998-2008 Poetry X. All rights reserved.
From The Children of the Night | 1897
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