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Fear like a living fire that only death	A
Might one day cool had now in Avon s eyes	B
Been witness for so long of an invasion	C
That made of a gay friend whom we had known	D
Almost a memory wore no other name	E
As yet for us than fear Another man	F
Than Avon might have given to us at least	G
A futile opportunity for words	H
We might regret But Avon since it happened	I
Fed with his unrevealing reticence	J
The fire of death we saw that horribly	K
Consumed him while he crumbled and said nothing	L
	-
So many a time had I been on the edge	M
And off again of a foremeasured fall	N
Into the darkness and discomfiture	O
Of his oblique rebuff that finally	K
My silence honored his holding itself	P
Away from a gratuitous intrusion	C
That likely would have widened a new distance	J
Already wide enough if not so new	Q
But there are seeming parallels in space	R
That may converge in time and so it was	S
I walked with Avon fought and pondered with him	T
While he made out a case for So and so	U
Or slaughtered What s his name in his old way	V
With a new difference Nothing in Avon lately	K
Was or was ever again to be for us	W
Like him that we remembered and all the while	X
We saw that fire at work within his eyes	B
And had no glimpse of what was burning there	O
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So for a year it went and so it went	Y
For half another year when all at once	J
At someone s tinkling afternoon at home	Z
I saw that in the eyes of Avon s wife	A2
The fire that I had met the day before	O
In his had found another living fuel	B2
To look at her and then to think of him	T
And thereupon to contemplate the fall	N
Of a dim curtain over the dark end	C2
Of a dark play required of me no more	O
Clairvoyance than a man who cannot swim	T
Will exercise in seeing that his friend	C2
Off shore will drown except he save himself	P
To her I could say nothing and to him	T
No more than tallied with a long belief	D2
That I should only have it back again	E2
For my chagrin to ruminate upon	F2
Ingloriously for the still time it starved	G2
And that would be for me as long a time	H2
As I remembered Avon who is yet	I2
Not quite forgotten On the other hand	J2
For saying nothing I might have with me always	K2
An injured and recriminating ghost	L2
Of a dead friend The more I pondered it	M2
The more I knew there was not much to lose	N2
Albeit for one whose delving hitherto	Q
Had been a forage of his own affairs	O2
The quest however golden the reward	P2
Was irksome and as Avon suddenly	K
And soon was driven to let me see was needless	W
It seemed an age ago that we were there	O
One evening in the room that in the days	K2
When they could laugh he called the Library	K
He calls it that you understand she said	Q2
Because the dictionary always lives here	O
He s not a man of books yet he can read	Q2
And write He learned it all at school He smiled	R2
And answered with a fervor that rang then	E2
Superfluous Had I learned a little more	O
At school it might have been as well for me	K
And I remember now that he paused then	E2
Leaving a silence that one had to break	S2
But this was long ago and there was now	T2
No laughing in that house We were alone	D
This time and it was Avon s time to talk	U2
	-
I waited and anon became aware	O
That I was looking less at Avon s eyes	B
Than at the dictionary like one asking	L
Already why we make so much of words	H
That have so little weight in the true balance	J
Your name is Resignation for an hour	O
He said and I m a little sorry for you	Q
So be resigned I shall not praise your work	V2
Or strive in any way to make you happy	K
My purpose only is to make you know	U
How clearly I have known that you have known	D
There was a reason waited on your coming	L
And if it s in me to see clear enough	W2
To fish the reason out of a black well	X2
Where you see only a dim sort of glimmer	O
That has for you no light	Y2
	-
I see the well	X2
I said but there s a doubt about the glimmer	O
Say nothing of the light I m at your service	W
And though you say that I shall not be happy	K
I shall be if in some way I may serve	Z2
To tell you fairly now that I know nothing	L
Is nothing more than fair You know as much	A3
As any man alive save only one man	F
If he s alive Whether he lives or not	B3
Is rather for time to answer than for me	K
And that s a reason or a part of one	C
For your appearance here You do not know him	T
And even if you should pass him in the street	C3
He might go by without your feeling him	T
Between you and the world I cannot say	V
Whether he would but I suppose he might	Y2
	-
And I suppose you might if urged I said	Q2
Say in what water it is that we are fishing	L
You that have reasons hidden in a well	X2
Not mentioning all your nameless friends that walk	U2
The streets and are not either dead or living	L
For company are surely one would say	V
To be forgiven if you may seem distraught	D3
I mean distrait I don t know what I mean	E3
I only know that I am at your service	W
Always yet with a special reservation	C
That you may deem eccentric All the same	E
Unless your living dead man comes to life	A2
Or is less indiscriminately dead	Q2
I shall go home	Z
	-
No you will not go home	Z
Said Avon or I beg that you will not	B3
So saying he went slowly to the door	O
And turned the key Forgive me and my manners	F3
But I would be alone with you this evening	L
The key as you observe is in the lock	G3
And you may sit between me and the door	O
Or where you will You have my word of honor	O
That I would spare you the least injury	K
That might attend your presence here this evening	L
	-
I thank you for your soothing introduction	C
Avon I said Go on The Lord giveth	A
The Lord taketh away I trust myself	P
Always to you and to your courtesy	K
Only remember that I cling somewhat	H3
Affectionately to the old tradition	C
I understand you and your part said Avon	F2
And I dare say it s well enough tonight	Y2
We play around the circumstance a little	B2
I ve read of men that half way to the stake	S2
Would have their little joke It s well enough	W2
Rather a waste of time but well enough	W2
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I listened as I waited and heard steps	I3
Outside of one who paused and then went on	F2
And having heard I might as well have seen	E3
The fear in his wife s eyes He gazed away	V
As I could see in helpless thought of her	O
And said to me Well then it was like this	J3
Some tales will have a deal of going back	K3
In them before they are begun But this one	C
Begins in the beginning when he came	E
I was a boy at school sixteen years old	L3
And on my way in all appearances	M3
To mark an even tempered average	N3
Among the major mediocrities	M3
Who serve and earn with no especial noise	M3
Or vast reward I saw myself even then	E2
A light for no high shining and I feared	O3
No boy or man having in truth no cause	M3
I was enough a leader to be free	K
And not enough a hero to be jealous	M3
Having eyes and ears I knew that I was envied	P3
And as a proper sort of compensation	C
Had envy of my own for two or three	K
But never felt and surely never gave	Q3
The wound of any more malevolence	M3
Than decent youth defeated for a day	V
May take to bed with him and kill with sleep	R3
So and so far my days were going well	X2
And would have gone so but for the black tiger	O
That many of us fancy is in waiting	L
But waits for most of us in fancy only	K
For me there was no fancy in his coming	L
Though God knows I had never summoned him	T
Or thought of him To this day I m adrift	S3
And in the dark out of all reckoning	L
To find a reason why he ever was	M3
Or what was ailing Fate when he was born	T3
On this alleged God ordered earth of ours	M3
Now and again there comes one of his kind	U3
By chance we say I leave all that to you	Q
Whether it was an evil chance alone	D
Or some invidious juggling of the stars	M3
Or some accrued arrears of ance	M3

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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