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