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1868–1950

THE QUESTION

Edgar Lee Masters

The sea moans and the stars are bright, The leaves lisp‘ neath a rolling moon. I shut my eyes against the night And make believe the time is June —

The June that left us over-soon. This is the path and this the place We sat and watched the moving sea, And I the moonlight on your face.

We were not happy — woe is me, Happiness is but memory! It seemeth, now that you are gone, My heart a measured pain doth keep:—

Are you now, as I am, alone? Do you make merry, do you weep? In whose arms are you now asleep?

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