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I say no more for Clavering	A
Than I should say of him who fails	B
To bring his wounded vessel home	C
When reft of rudder and of sails	B
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I say no more than I should say	D
Of any other one who sees	E
Too far for guidance of to day	D
Too near for the eternities	E
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I think of him as I should think	A
Of one who for scant wages played	F
And faintly a flawed instrument	G
That fell while it was being made	F
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I think of him as one who fared	H
Unfaltering and undeceived	H
Amid mirages of renown	I
And urgings of the unachieved	H
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I think of him as one who gave	J
To Lingard leave to be amused	H
And listened with a patient grace	E
That we the wise ones had refused	H
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I think of metres that he wrote	H
For Cubit the ophidian guest	H
What Lilith or Dark Lady Well	K
Time swallows Cubit with the rest	H
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I think of last words that he said	H
One midnight over Calverly	K
Good by good man He was not good	H
So Clavering was wrong you see	E
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I wonder what had come to pass	E
Could he have borrowed for a spell	K
The fiery frantic indolence	E
That made a ghost of Leffingwell	K
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I wonder if he pitied us	E
Who cautioned him till he was gray	D
To build his house with ours on earth	L
And have an end of yesterday	D
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I wonder what it was we saw	E
To make us think that we were strong	A
I wonder if he saw too much	M
Or if he looked one way too long	A
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But when were thoughts or wonderings	E
To ferret out the man within	N
Why prate of what he seemed to be	E
And all that he might not have been	N
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He clung to phantoms and to friends	E
And never came to anything	A
He left a wreath on Cubit's grave	J
I say no more for Clavering	A

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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