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Autumn 1963 • Vol. XXV No. 4 • Poetry |

The Lawn Afterward

Just past midnight on the lawn and a thin moon;
Those white tossings may be the flutter of dresses;
They may be petals, for the wind bears in it a sweetness;
Any dark dresses there have blended into the lawn.

The musicians, by now far away, doze on their cases;
Two Doberrnans leap through the park toward the ghost of a scent,
And one window only in all that great house gives light:
Is it a servant standing remotely for us,

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