I COME AND GO

by: Witter Bynner (1881-1968)

      COME and go
      And never stay.
      I pick and choose
      A night, a day,
      I find, I lose,
      I laugh along,
      I will not know
      Right things from wrong.
       
      I pity those
      Who pity me,
      I ask no boon,
      But being free . . .
      And so the moon,
      My polished stone,
      Shines and shows
      I lie alone.

"I Come and Go" is reprinted from The Masque of Poets. Ed. Edward J. O'Brien. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1918.

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