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ADJUSTMENT by MARGARET CUNNINGHAM

First Line: IF I MUST LIVE AND LIVE WITHOUT YOU
Last Line: I SHALL NOT THINK OF YOU OR OF THIS YEAR AND SMILE.
Subject(s): ABSENCE; SEPARATION; ISOLATION;
If I must live and live without you
It should be done with honor to myself,
Intolerant of listless days and weeping,
And pain that pillages the heart by stealth.

All in good time the dream is half-forgotten
And much is found to brighten and beguile;
Though twenty years from now if I remember
I shall not think of you or of this year and smile.



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