Wanderer moon smiling a faintly ironical smile at this brilliant, dew-moistened summer morning,— a detached sleepily indifferent smile, a wanderer’s smile,— if I should buy a shirt your color and put on a necktie sky blue where would they carry me?
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First published in Al Que Quiere! A Book of Poems (1917). First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established. [1]
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William Carlos Williams (1883–1963).
“Summer Song.” First published in Al Que Quiere! A Book of Poems (1917).
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