| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | The Return | | By Oscar Williams |
| | From “Golden Darkness”
IN some far and lonely midnight | |
| I shall arise as in a dream, | |
| And part dark curtains on a strange room | |
| Where mysterious candles gleam. | |
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| I shall open an unknown book | 5 |
| In that weird and wind-stirred place, | |
| And come upon a poem | |
| With a sad face. | |
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| I shall listen to my dead heart’s cry | |
| Faint through the years that are gone, | 10 |
| And I shall feel over my shoulder | |
| The Silence looking on. | |
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| And very softly he will touch me, | |
| And I shall turn toward the gloom; | |
| He will take my arm and quietly | 15 |
| Lead me out of the room. | | | | |
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