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I shall come this way again
    On some distant morrow
When the red and golden leaves
    Have fallen on my sorrow . . . !

I shall come this way again
    When this day is rotten
In the grave of yesterdays
    And this hour forgotten. . . . !

I shall come this way again
    Before the lamp light dies
To comfort you and dry the tear
    Of penance from your eyes. . . . !

Credit

From Caroling Dusk (Harper & Brothers, 1927), edited by Countee Cullen. This poem is in the public domain.