-Edna St. Vincent Millay
We were very tired, we were very merry ---
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable ---
But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,
We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon;
And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.
We were very tired, we were very merry ---
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry;
And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear,
From a dozen each, we had bought somewhere;
And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold,
And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.
We were very tired, we were very merry,
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
We hailed, ``Good-morrow, Mother!'' to a shawl-covered head,
And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read;
And she wept, ``God bless you!'' for the apples and pears,
And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.
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