Summer SongAuthor(s): William Carlos WilliamsSource: Poetry, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Nov., 1916), pp. 85-86Published by: Poetry FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20570964 .

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Apology

Colored women Day workers, Old and experienced, Returning home at dusk In cast-off clothing, Faces like Old Florentine oak.

Also The set pieces Of your faces stir me Leading citizens: But not In the same way.

SUMMER SONG

Wanderer moon, Smiling A faintly ironical smile At this brilliant, Dew-moistened Summer morning A detached, Sleepily indifferent Smile, A wanderer's smile If I should

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POETRY: A Magazine of Verse

Buy a shirt Your color, and Put on a necktie Sky-blue,

Where would they carry me? Over the hills and Far away?

Where would they carry me?

THE OLD WORSHIPPER

How times change, old friend, And how little anything changes!

We used to collect butterflies And insects in Kipp's woods Do you remember? Now this wonderful collection From the Amazon Comes quite naturally For you to wetigh and to classify.

Quiet and unnoticed The flower of your whole life Has opened its perfect petals And none to witness, save one

Old worshipper! William Carlos Williams

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