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“He comes unfailing for the loan
We give and then forget;
He comes, and probably for years
Will he be coming yet,—
Familiar as an old mistake,
And futile as regret.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

“He may have been a master of his fate,
And of his atoms,—ready as another
In his emergence to exonerate
His father and his mother;”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

“He never told us what he was,
Or what mischance, or other cause,
Had banished him from better days
To play the Prince of Castaways.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

“He may have been a master of his fate,
And of his atoms,—ready as another
In his emergence to exonerate
His father and his mother;”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

“But go, and if you listen she will call,
Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal—
Luke Havergal.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)