You to the left and I to the right,
For the ways of men must sever—
And it well may be for a day and a night,
And it well may be forever.
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In 1950/51, as a German exchange student at the George Washington High School of San Francisco, I chose the poem for a recital in Public Speaking, andI still have the handwritten copy I made then. It shows, in the last line but one, an exclamation mark rather than a question mark. Helge Jan Schmodde, Bad Soden, Germany
It certainly paints a picture of paths through life certainly reflected on mine.