Witter Bynner. Neighbors. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Neighbors

By Witter Bynner


NEIGHBORS are not neighborly
Who close the windows tight,—
Nor those who fix a peeping eye
For finding things not right.

Let me have faith, is what I pray,	5
And let my faith be strong!—
But who am I, is what I say,
To think my neighbor wrong?

And though my neighbor may deny
That faith could be so slight,	10
May call me wrong, yet who am I
To think my neighbor right?

Perhaps we wisely by and by
May learn it of each other,
That he is right and so am I—	15
And save a lot of bother.