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Could he have made Priscilla share	A
The paradise that he had planned	B
Llewellyn would have loved his wife	C
As well as any in the land	B
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Could he have made Priscilla cease	D
To goad him for what God left out	E
Llewellyn would have been as mild	F
As any we have read about	E
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Could all have been as all was not	G
Llewellyn would have had no story	H
He would have stayed a quiet man	I
And gone his quiet way to glory	H
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But howsoever mild he was	J
Priscilla was implacable	K
And whatsoever timid hopes	L
He built she found them and they fell	M
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And this went on with intervals	N
Of labored harmony between	O
Resounding discords till at last	P
Llewellyn turned as will be seen	O
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Priscilla warmer than her name	Q
And shriller than the sound of saws	R
Pursued Llewellyn once too far	S
Not knowing quite the man he was	J
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The more she said the fiercer clung	T
The stinging garment of his wrath	U
And this was all before the day	V
When Time tossed roses in his path	U
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Before the roses ever came	Q
Llewellyn had already risen	W
The roses may have ruined him	X
They may have kept him out of prison	W
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And she who brought them being Fate	Y
Made roses do the work of spears	Z
Though many made no more of her	A2
Than civet coral rouge and years	Z
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You ask us what Llewellyn saw	B2
But why ask what may not be given	W
To some will come a time when change	C2
Itself is beauty if not heaven	W
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One afternoon Priscilla spoke	D2
And her shrill history was done	W
At any rate she never spoke	D2
Like that again to anyone	W
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One gold October afternoon	E2
Great fury smote the silent air	A
And then Llewellyn leapt and fled	F2
Like one with hornets in his hair	A
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Llewellyn left us and he said	F2
Forever leaving few to doubt him	X
And so through frost and clicking leaves	G2
The Tilbury way went on without him	X
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And slowly through the Tilbury mist	H2
The stillness of October gold	I2
Went out like beauty from a face	J2
Priscilla watched it and grew old	I2
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He fled still clutching in his flight	K2
The roses that had been his fall	L2
The Scarlet One as you surmise	M2
Fled with him coral rouge and all	L2
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Priscilla waiting saw the change	C2
Of twenty slow October moons	N2
And then she vanished in her turn	O2
To be forgotten like old tunes	N2
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So they were gone all three of them	P2
I should have said and said no more	Q2
Had not a face once on Broadway	V
Been one that I had seen before	Q2
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The face and hands and hair were old	I2
But neither time nor penury	H
Could quench within Llewellyn's eyes	M2
The shine of his one victory	H
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The roses faded and gone by	R2
Left ruin where they once had reigned	S2
But on the wreck as on old shells	T2
The color of the rose remained	S2
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His fictive merchandise I bought	G
For him to keep and show again	U2
Then led him slowly from the crush	V2
Of his cold shouldered fellow men	U2
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And so Llewellyn I began	I
Not so he said not so at all	L2
I've tried the world and found it good	W2
For more than twenty years this fall	L2
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And what the world has left of me	H
Will go now in a little while	X2
And what the world had left of him	X
Was partly an unholy guile	X2
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That I have paid for being calm	Y2
Is what you see if you have eyes	M2
For let a man be calm too long	Z2
He pays for much before he dies	M2
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Be calm when you are growing old	I2
And you have nothing else to do	A3
Pour not the wine of life too thin	B3
If water means the death of you	A3
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You say I might have learned at home	C3
The truth in season to be strong	Z2
Not so I took the wine of life	C
Too thin and I was calm too long	Z2
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Like others who are strong too late	Y
For me there was no going back	D3
For I had found another speed	E3
And I was on the other track	D3
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God knows how far I might have gone	F3
Or what there might have been to see	H
But my speed had a sudden end	G3
And here you have the end of me	H
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The end or not it may be now	H3
But little farther from the truth	I3
To say those worn satiric eyes	M2
Had something of immortal youth	I3
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He may among the millions here	J3
Be one or he may quite as well	M
Be gone to find again the Tree	H
Of Knowledge out of which he fell	M
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He may be near us dreaming yet	K3
Of unrepented rouge and coral	K
Or in a grave without a name	Q
May be as far off as a moral	K

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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