Original typescript of To One Lost by Raymond Knister.
Marjorie Willan, Raymond Knister's sister, ca. 1922.
To One Lost
Your voice was in the air last night,
It was strange to have you near;
The rooms were filled with laughter and light
And no one seemed to hear.
From the mockery at the window I turned away
And did not close it out.
But how impossible to chatter and be gay, –
Your voice in my heart and without
Iowa City, Iowa.
(After Exile, page 148)