Captain Craig : $b A book of poems

Robinson, Edwin Arlington · 1935

Boston and New York HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY _The Riverside Press, Cambridge_ 1903 I doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig, Or called him by his name, or looked at him So curiously, or so concernedly, As they had looked at ashes; but a few-- Say five or six of us--had found somehow The spark in him, and we had fanned it there, Choked under, like a jest in Holy Writ, By Tilbury prudence. He had lived his life, And he had shared, with all of humankind, Inveterate leave to fashion of himself, By some resplendent metamorphosis, Whatever he was not. And after time, When it had come sufficiently to pass That he was going pa…

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