Dorothy Parker

The Last Question

New love, new love, where are you to lead me?
 All along a narrow way that marks a crooked line.
How are you to slake me, and how are you to feed me?
 With bitter yellow berries, and a sharp new wine.
 
New love, new love, shall I be forsaken?
 One shall go a-wandering, and one of us must sigh.
Sweet it is to slumber, but how shall we awaken–
 Whose will be the broken heart, when dawn comes by?
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