African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Donald Jeffrey Hayes, "Auf Wiedershen" (1927)

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. ...!

Published in Caroling Dusk, 1927