Recuerdo
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892 to 1950
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We were very tired, we were very merry—
We ______ gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
______ was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable—
______ we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,
We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon;
And ______ whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.
We ______ very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone ______ and forth all night on the ferry;
And you ______ an apple, and I ate a pear,
From a ______ of each we had bought somewhere;
And the sky ______ wan, and the wind came cold,
And the sun ______ dripping, a bucketful of gold.
We were very tired, ______ were very merry,
We had gone back and forth ______ night on the ferry.
We hailed, “Good morrow, mother!” to a shawl-covered head,
And bought a morning paper, ______ neither of us read;
And she wept, “God bless you!” for the apples and pears,
And we gave ______ all our money but our subway fares.