Twenty years go by on noiseless feet, He returns, and once again they meet, She exclaims, “Good heavens! and is that he?” He mutters, “My God! and that is she!”
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First published in Fifty Years & Other Poems (1917). First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established. [1] [2]
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Cite this poem
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938).
“From the Spanish.” First published in Fifty Years & Other Poems (1917).
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