[{"node":{"title":"Greacen028","Collections":"Unpublished Poems","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Greacen028","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"The parting","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacen028","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Greacen028_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffThe Parting\n\nThe clouds are muttering for rain,\nWhile birds in solid squadrons fly from storm;\nThe telegraphic wires sadly affirm\nThe bleakness of a steely spring.\nHe throws down the evening newspaper,\nChanges into ragged slippers, glances\nDown at the street where the rain\nLike stretched elastic falls in lengthy strings;\nAnd he takes his favourite book from, the top shelf,\nAlmost at random, so mechanical it is.\nThis voice speaks softly from a lost summer:\n\n \"0 will you say it again ...\n    Say it all again!\n    Will you say it then\n    Ae you say it now?\n    Will you be true\n    And can I be sure?\n    0 will you say it again ...\"\n\nFootsteps drop like anonymous parcels.\nDeep, deep into the gashed night\nA gramophone wheedles a tired melody\nFrom the next-floor apartment:\nAnd he thinks, more desperate than angry:\n\n \"I can never say it again,\n    Never, never say it again.\n    For the past is past\n    And cancelled out finally.\u2019*\n\nAnd yet that other voice maintains\nIts level melody,\nIts hollow, ruthless, tender, plaintive melody:\n\n \"0 will you say it again ...\n    Say it a11 again!\n    Will you say it then\n    As you say it now?\n    Will you be true?\n    And can I be sure?\n    O will you say it again ...\"\n","Type":"Text"}}]