RENDEZVOUS

Robert Hillyer

Read by Roma Liza Romero

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If the deep night is haunted, it is I

Who am the ghost; not the tall trees

Nor the white moonlight slanting down like rain,

Filling the hollows with bright pools of silver.

 

A long train whistle serpentines around the hill

Now shrill, now far away.

Tell me, from what dark smoky terminal

What train sets out for yesterday?

 

Or, since our spirits take off and resume

Their flesh as travelers their cloaks, O tell me where,

In what age and what country you will come,

That I may meet you there.

 

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