I saw a light on yester-night–
A low light on the misty lea;
The stars were dim and silence grim
Sat brooding on the sullen sea.
From out the silence came a voice–
A voice that thrilled me through and through,
And said, “Alas, is this your choice?
For he is false and I was true.”
And in my ears the passing years
Will sadly whisper words of rue:
Forget–and yet–can I forget
That one was false and one was true?
(Hanford Lennox Gordon)
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