African American Poetry (1870-1928): A Digital Anthology

James Weldon Johnson, "From the Spanish" (1917)

FROM THE SPANISH

    Twenty years go by on noiseless feet,
    He returns, and once again they meet,
    She exclaims, "Good heavens! and is that he?"
    He mutters, "My God! and that is she!"


Published in Fifty Years and Other Poems, 1917