<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450036" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Words For Departure</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing was remembered, nothing forgotten.<br>When we awoke, wagons were passing on the warm summer pavements,<br>The window-sills were wet from rain in the night,<br>Birds scattered and settled over chimneypots<br>As among grotesque trees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing was accepted, nothing looked beyond.<br>Slight-voiced bells separated hour from hour,<br>The afternoon sifted coolness<br>And people drew together in streets becoming deserted.<br>There was a moon, and light in a shop-front,<br>And dusk falling like precipitous water.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hand clasped hand<br>Forehead still bowed to forehead--<br>Nothing was lost, nothing possessed<br>There was no gift nor denial.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2<br>I have remembered you.<br>You were not the town visited once,<br>Nor the road falling behind running feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You were as awkward as flesh<br>And lighter than frost or ashes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You were the rind,<br>And the white-juiced apple,<br>The song, and the words waiting for music.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">3<br>You have learned the beginning;<br>Go from mine to the other.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be together; eat, dance, despair,<br>Sleep, be threatened, endure.<br>You will know the way of that.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But at the end, be insolent;<br>Be absurd--strike the thing short off;<br>Be mad--only do not let talk<br>Wear the bloom from silence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And go away without fire or lantern<br>Let there be some uncertainty about your departure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Louise+Bogan">Louise Bogan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450036" data-title="Words For Departure de Louise Bogan" data-description="Nothing was remembered, nothing forgotten. When we awoke, wagons were passing on the warm summer pavements, The window-sills were wet from rain in the night, Birds scattered and settled over chimneypots As among grotesque trees. Nothing was accep..."></div> </div> </div>

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