Arlington Robinson

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    “So on we worked, and waited for the light,
    And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
    And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
    Went home and put a bullet through his head.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “The face we see was never young,
    Nor could it ever have been old.

    For he, to whom we had applied
    Our shopman’s test of age and worth,
    Was elemental when he died,
    As he was ancient at his birth:”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “Give him the darkest inch your shelf allows,
    Hide him in lonely garrets, if you will,—
    But his hard, human pulse is throbbing still
    With the sure strength that fearless truth endows.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)