Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A MEMORY, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL


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First Line: Why did it flash at the window there
Last Line: Twould matter naught were it wind or rain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Memory; Thought; Time; Thinking


WHY did it flash at the window there,
In the light and shade of the sunset glow,
The gleam of the face and the glint of the hair
As they flashed on me years and years ago?

It mattered not for the wind or rain,
We were young, just then, as I passed in the street;
Loyal each eve at the window-pane
The gleam and the glance my gaze would meet.

The face then paled, and at eve was gone;
Dark as I passed was the window-pane:
Oh, if that face at the window shone
'Twould matter naught were it wind or rain!





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