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Reading over your letters I find you wrote me	A
My dear boy or at times dear boy and the envelope	B
Said master all as I had been your very son	C
And not the orphan whom you adopted	D
Well you were father to me And I can recall	E
The things you did for me or gave me	A
One time we rode in a box car to Springfield	F
To see the greatest show on earth	G
And one time you gave me redtop boots	H
And one time a watch and one time a gun	C
Well I grew to gawkiness with a voice	I
Like a rooster trying to crow in August	J
Hatched in April we'll say	K
And you went about wrapped up in silence	L
With eyes aflame and I heard little rumors	M
Of what they were doing to you and how	N
They wronged you and we were poor so poor	O
And I could not understand why you failed	P
And why if you did good things for the people	Q
The people did not sustain you	R
And why you loved another woman than Aunt Susan	C
So it was whispered at school and what could be baser	S
Or so little to be forgiven	C
	-
They crowded you hard in those days	T
But you fought like a wounded lion	C
For yourself I know but for us for me	A
At last you fell ill and for months you tottered	P
Around the streets as thin as death	U
Trying to earn our bread your great eyes glowing	V
And the silence around you like a shawl	E
But something in you kept you up	W
You grew well again and rosy with cheeks	X
Like an Indian peach almost and eyes	Y
Full of moonlight and sunlight and a voice	I
That sang and a humor that warded	P
The arrows off But still between us	Z
There was reticence you kept me away	K
With a glittering hardness perhaps you thought	P
I kept you away for I was moving	V
In spheres you knew not living through	R
Beliefs you believed in no more and ideals	A2
That were just mirrors of unrealities	A2
As a boy can be I was critical of you	R
And reasons for your failures began to arise	A2
In my mind I saw specific facts here and there	B2
With no philosophy at hand to weld them	C2
And synthesize them into one truth	D2
And a rush of the strength of youth	D2
Deluded me into thinking the world	P
Was something so easily understood and managed	P
While I knew it not at all in truth	D2
And an adolescent egotism	E2
Made me feel you did not know me	A
Or comprehend the all that I was	A2
All this you divined	P
	-
So it went And when I left you and passed	P
To the world the city still I see you	R
With eyes averted and feel your hand	P
Limp with sorrow you could not speak	F2
You thought of what I might be and where	B2
Life would take me and how it would end	P
There was longer silence A year or two	R
Brought me closer to you I saw the play now	N
And the game somewhat and understood your fights	A2
And enmities and hardnesses and silences	A2
And wild humor that had kept you whole	G2
For your soul had made it as an antitoxin	C
To the world's infections And you swung to me	A
Closer than before and a chumship began	H2
Between us	A2
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What vital power was yours	A2
You never tired or needed sleep or had a pain	I2
Or refused a delight I loved the things now	N
You had always loved a winning horse	A2
A roulette wheel a contest of skill	J2
In games or sports long talks on the corner	S
With men who have lived and tell you	R
Things with a rich flavor of old wisdom or humor	S
A woman a glass of whisky at a table	Q
Where the fatigue of life falls and our reserves	A2
That wait for happiness come up in smiles	A2
Laughter gentle confidences Here you were	S
A man with youth and I a youth was a man	H2
Exulting in your braveries and delight in life	K2
How you knocked that scamp over at Harry Varnell's	A2
When he tried to take your chips And how I	L2
Who had thought the devil in cards as a boy	M2
Loved to play with you now and watch you play	K
And watch the subtle mathematics of your mind	P
Prophecy divine the plays Who was it	P
In your ancestry that you harked back to	R
And reproduced with such various gifts	A2
Of flesh and spirit Anglo Saxon Celt	P
You with such rapid wit and powerful skill	J2
For catching illogic and whipping Error's	A2
Fang d head from the body	A
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I was really ahead of you	R
At this stage with more self consciousness	A2
Of what man is and what life is at last	P
And how the spirit works and by what laws	A2
With what inevitable force But still I was	A2
Behind you in that strength which in our youth	D2
If ever we have it squeezes all the nectar	S
From the grapes It seemed you'd never lose	A2
This power and sense of joy but yet at times	A2
I saw another phase of you	R
	-
There was the day	K
We rode together north of the old town	N2
Past the old farm houses that I knew	R
Past maple groves and fields of corn in the shock	O2
And fields of wheat with the fall green	P2
It was October but the clouds were summer's	A2
Lazily floating in a sky of June	Q2
And a few crows flying here and there	B2
And a quail's call and around us a great silence	A2
That held at its core old memories	A2
Of pioneers and dead days forgotten things	A2
I'll never forget how you looked that day Your hair	B2
Was turning silver now but still your eyes	A2
Burned as of old and the rich olive glow	R2
In your cheeks shone with not a line or wrinkle	Q
You seemed to me perfection a youth a man	H2
And now you talked of the world with the old wit	P
And now of the soul how such a man went down	N2
Through folly or wrong done by him and how	N
Man's death cannot end all	E
There must be life hereafter	S
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As you were that day as you looked and spoke	S2
As the earth was I hear as the soul of it all	E
Godard's Dawn Dvor k's Humoresque	S2
The Morris Dances Mendelssohn's Barcarole	E
And old Scotch songs When the Kye Come Hame	A
And The Moon Had Climbed the Highest Hill	E
The Musseta Waltz and Rudolph's Narrative	T2
Your great brow seemed Beethoven's	A2
And the lust of life in your face Cellini's	A2
And your riotous fancy like Dumas	A2
I was nearer you now than ever before	U2
And finding each other thus I see to day	K
How the human soul seeks the human soul	E
And finds the one it seeks at last	P
For you know you can open a window	R2
That looks upon embowered darkness	A2
When the flowers sleep and the trees are still	E
At Midnight and no light burns in the room	A
And you can hide your butterfly	E
Somewhere in the room but soon you will see	A2
A host of butterfly mates	A2
Fluttering through the window to join	V2
Your butterfly hid in the room	A
It is somehow thus with souls	A2
	-
This day then I understood it all	E
Your vital democracy and love of men	W2
And tolerance of life and how the excess of these	A2
Had wrought your sorrows in the days	A2
When we were so poor and the small of mind	P
Spoke of your sins and your connivance	A2
With sinful men You had lived it down	N2
Had triumphed over them and you had grown	X2
Prosperous in the world and had passed	P
Into an easy mastery of life and beyond the thought	P
Of further conquests for things	A2
As the Brahmins say no more you worshiped matter	S
Or scarcely ghosts or even the gods	A2
With singleness of heart	P
This day you worshiped Eternal Peace	A2
Or Eternal Flame with scarce a laugh or jest	P
To hide your worship and I understood	P
Seeing so many facets to you why it was	A2
Blind Condon always smiled to hear your voice	A2
And why it was in a greenroom years ago	R2
Booth turned to you marking your face	A2
From all the rest and said There is a man	H2
Who might play Hamlet better still Othello	R2
And why it was the women loved you and the priest	P
Could feed his body and soul together drinking	S2
A glass of beer and visiting with you	R
	-
Then something happened	P
Your face grew smaller your brow more narrow	R2
Dull fires burned in your eyes	A2
Your body shriveled you walked with a cynical shuffle	E
Your hands mixed the keys of life	K2
You had become a discord	P
A monstrous hatred consumed you	R
You had suffered the greatest wrong of all	E
I knew and granted the wrong	S2
You had mounted up to sixty years now breathing hard	P
And just at the time that honor belonged to you	R
You were dishonored at the hands of a friend	P
I wept for you and still I wondered	P
If all I had grown to see in you and find in you	R
And love in you was just a fond illusion	C
If after all I had not seen you aright as a boy	M2
Barbaric hard suspicious cruel redeemed	P
Alone by bubbling animal spirits	A2
Even these gone now all of you smoke	S2
Laden with stinging gas and lethal vapor	S
Then you came forth again like the sun after storm	A
The deadly uric acid driven out at last	P
Which had poisoned you and dwarfed your soul	E
So much for soul	E
	-
The last time I saw you	R
Your face was full of golden light	P
Something between flame and the richness of flesh	Y2
You were yourself again wholly yourself	Z2
And oh to find you again and resume	A
Our understanding we had worked so long to reach	A3
You calm and luminant and rich in thought	P
This time it seemed we said but yes or no	R2
That was enough we smoked together	S
And drank a glass of wine and watched	P
The leaves fall sitting on the porch	B3
Then life whirled me away like a leaf	C3
And I went about the crowded ways of New York	S2
	-
And one night Alberta and I took dinner	S
At a place near Fourteenth Street where the music	S2
Was like the sun on a breeze swept lake	S2
When every wave is a patine of fire	S
And I thought of you not at all	E
Looking at Alberta and watching her white teeth	D3
Bite off bits of Italian bread	P
And watching her smile and the wide pupils	A2
Of her eyes electrified by wine	E3
And music and the touch of our hands	A2
Now and then across the table	E
We went to her house at last	P
And through a languorous evening	S2
Where no light was but a single candle	E
We circled about and about a pending theme	A
Till at last we solved it suddenly in rapture	S
Almost by chance and when I left	P
She followed me to the hall and leaned above	F3
The railing about the stair for the farewell kiss	A2
And I went into the open air ecstatically	A2
With the stars in the spaces of sky between	P2
The towering buildings and the rush	G3
Of wheels and clang of bells	A2
Still with the fragrance of her lips and cheeks	A2
And glinting hair about me delicate	P
And keen in spite of the open air	B2
And just as I entered the brilliant car	H3
Something said to me you are dead	P
I had not thought of you was not thinking of you	R
But I knew it was true as it was	A2
For the telegram waited me at my room	A
I didn't come back	S2
I could not bear to see the breathless breath	U
Over your brow nor look at your face	A2
However you fared or where	B2
To what victories soever	B2
Vanquished or seemingly vanquished	P