In A Subway Station

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h2 id="id00176" style="margin-top: 4em"> IN A SUBWAY STATION</h2> <p id="id00177">  AFTER a year I came again to the place;<br/> The tireless lights and the reverberation,<br/> The angry thunder of trains that burrow the ground,<br/> The hunted, hurrying people were still the same—<br/> But oh, another man beside me and not you!<br/> Another voice and other eyes in mine!<br/> And suddenly I turned and saw again<br/> The gleaming curve of tracks, the bridge above—<br/> They were burned deep into my heart before,<br/> The night I watched them to avoid your eyes,<br/> When you were saying, "Oh, look up at me!"<br/> When you were saying, "Will you never love me?"<br/> And when I answered with a lie. Oh then<br/> You dropped your eyes. I felt your utter pain.<br/> I would have died to say the truth to you.<br/> After a year I came again to the place—<br/> The hunted hurrying people were still the same….<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />