Boys
We were all boys, and three of us were friends; And we were more than friends, it seemed to me: -- Yes, we were more than brothers then, we three. . . . Brothers? . . . But we were boys, and there it ends.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
We were all boys, and three of us were friends; And we were more than friends, it seemed to me: -- Yes, we were more than brothers then, we three. . . . Brothers? . . . But we were boys, and there it ends.
The speaker remembers a close friendship from childhood, when he and two other boys felt like more than friends, even more than brothers. Looking back, he insists on how strong that bond seemed at the time.
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