Is It Worth WhileAuthor(s): Violet HuntSource: Poetry, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Apr., 1918), p. 21Published by: Poetry FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20571638 .

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IS IT WORTH VVHILE

Dear, were you ever here? It has all grown so faint Just reminders, Like the squeak of a bat, the chirp of a starling on the rim

of the chimney outside, As I lie in bed of a morning;

The cry of a new-born kitten, Or the crawling of a beetle on a slate, As I sit out in the warm summer evenings.

Yet there are traces Less intangible. ... There is the dear little amateur letter-box You put in yourself for me, The knots you made for me in the hammock cords, The marks of your burnt cigarette-ends That blemish the corners of tables and shelves.

Well, well! . . . One throws away garments, one destroys photographs That remind one. . .. Is it worth while to give up a house Because of such slight aura

As these? Violet Hunt

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