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If I Should Learn In Some Quite Casual Way

 IF I should learn, in some quite casual way, 
 That you were gone, not to return again— 
Read from the back-page of a paper, say, 
 Held by a neighbor in a subway train, 
How at the corner of this avenue 
 And such a street (so are the papers filled) 
A hurrying man—who happened to be you— 
 At noon to-day had happened to be killed, 
I should not cry aloud—I could not cry 
 Aloud, or wring my hands in such a place— 
I should but watch the station lights rush by 
 With a more careful interest on my face, 
Or raise my eyes and read with greater care 
Where to store furs and how to treat the hair.

Poem by Edna St Vincent Millay
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