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Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961)

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              1For we have thought the longer thoughts
              2    And gone the shorter way.
              3And we have danced to devils' tunes,
              4    Shivering home to pray;
              5To serve one master in the night,
              6    Another in the day.

Notes

1] Gerogiannis points out Hemingway's allusion to Longfellow's "My Lost Youth":

A boy's will is the wind's will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.


Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: Ernest Hemingway, Three Stories & Ten Poems (Dijon: Maurice Darantiere, 1923): 58. Facsimile edition by Contact Publishing, 1977. PS 3515 E37A15 Robarts Library.
First publication date: January 1923
Publication date note: Poetry 21.iv (January 1923): 193-95.
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1999.
Recent editing: 2:2002/4/17

Composition date: 1921
Composition date note: Chicago (Complete Poems, ed. Nicholas Gerogiannis, rev. edn. [1992]: 34)
Rhyme: abcbdb


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