RECUERDO

by: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

      E were very tired, we were very merry --
      We had gone back and forth all night upon the ferry.
      It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable --
      But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,
      We lay on the hill-top underneath the moon;
      And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.
       
      We were very tired, we were very merry --
      We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry;
      And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear,
      From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere;
      And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold,
      And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.
       
      We were very tired, we were very merry,
      We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
      We hailed, "Good morrow, mother!" to a shawl-covered head,
      And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read;
      And she wept, "God bless you!" for the apples and the pears,
      And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.

"Recuerdo" is reprinted from A Few Figs from Thistles: Poems and Sonnets. New York: Harper, 1922.

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