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TO NO ONE IN PARTICULAR by MARGARET CUNNINGHAM

First Line: AND AFTERWARD IF WE SHOULD EVER MEET
Last Line: ALL THAT HAD CEASED TO MATTER LONG AGO.
Subject(s): ABSENCE; SEPARATION; ISOLATION;
And afterward if we should ever meet,
Oh, years from now, when love itself shall seem
A sleeping memory or a dusty dream,
It may be I could pass you on the street

And see just this: -- that you are old and slow,
And stout, perhaps, and very gray;
I might remember tranquilly that day
All that had ceased to matter long ago.



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