This side of paradise by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Author:Francis Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, Francis Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Roman
ISBN: 9781440044250
Published: 1948-08-15T08:00:00+00:00

Amory Writes a Poem

The weeks tore by. Amory wandered occasionally to New York on the chance of finding a new shining green auto-bus, that its stick-of-candy glamour might penetrate his disposition. One day he ventured into a stock-company revival of a play whose name was faintly familiar. The curtain rose—he watched casually as a girl entered. A few phrases rang in his ear and touched a faint chord of memory. Where—? When—?

Then he seemed to hear a voice whispering beside him, a very soft, vibrant voice: “Oh, I’m such a poor little fool; do tell me when I do wrong.”

The solution came in a flash and he had a quick, glad memory of Isabelle.

He found a blank space on his programme, and began to scribble rapidly:

“Here in the figured dark I watch once more,

There, with the curtain, roll the years away;

Two years of years—there was an idle day

Of ours, when happy endings didn’t bore

Our unfermented souls; I could adore

Your eager face beside me, wide-eyed, gay,

Smiling a repertoire while the poor play

Reached me as a faint ripple reaches shore.

Yawning and wondering an evening through,

I watch alone ... and chatterings, of course,

Spoil the one scene which, somehow, did have charms;

You wept a bit, and I grew sad for you

Right here! Where Mr. X defends divorce

And What’s-Her-Name falls fainting in his arms.”

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