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BEWICK FINZER
by Edwin Arlington Robinson 1916

 

1. Time was when his half million drew
2. The breath of six per cent;
3. But soon the worm of what-was-not
4. Fed hard on his content;
5. And something crumbled in his brain
6. When his half million went.
8. Time passed, and filled along with his
9. The place of many more;
10. Time came, and hardly one of us
11. Had credence to restore,
12. From what appeared one day, the man
13. Whom we had known before.
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15. The broken voice, the withered neck,
16. The coat worn out with care,
17. The cleanliness of indigence,
18. The brilliance of despair.
19. The fond imponderable dreams
20. Of affluence, -- all were there.
21.  
22. Poor Finzer, with his dreams and schemes.
23. Fares hard now in the race,
24. With heart and eye that have a task
25. Of one who might so easily
26. Have been in Finzer’s place.
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28. He comes unfailing for the loan,
29. We give and then forget;
30. He comes, and probably for years
31. Will he be coming yet,   --
32. Familiar as an old mistake,
33. And futile as regret.

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