Read "The Wise Brothers" by Edwin Arlington Robinson online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
FIRST VOICE
SO long adrift, so fast aground, / What foam and ruin have we found -
We, the Wise Brothers?
Could heaven and earth be framed amiss, / That we should land in fine like this -
We, and no others?
SECOND VOICE
Convoyed by what accursèd thing
Made we this evil reckoning -
We, the Wise Brothers?
And if the failure be complete,
Why look we forward from defeat -
We, and what others?
THIRD VOICE
Blown far from harbors once in sight, / May we not, going far, go right, -
We, the Wise Brothers?
Companioned by the whirling spheres, / Have we no more than what appears -
We, and all others?