You Learn / After A While / Comes The Dawn - The Full Poem & Words

Read by Patrick Wanis PhD On December 15, 1982, a reader wrote to Ask Ann Landers syndicated advice column stating that she found an anonymous poem in a crafts store in Minneapolis, called “Comes The Dawn.” Many years later, a woman by the name of Veronica A. Shoffstall wrote to “Ask Ann Landers” column claiming she was the author and that she wrote it when she was 19, in 1971. In 2004, another woman, Judith B. Evans claimed to be the “authentic author” of this poem. And in 2015, yet another woman, Veronica Rodriguez claimed to be the authentic author of “Comes The Dawn.” Judith B. Evans retracted her claim when it was revealed to her that the poem already existed in Spanish many years before her claim. In fact, the poem, “Comes The Dawn”, also known under the titles of “You Learn” and “After A While”, is one half of a longer poem “Aprendiendo”, which was written in Spanish and which has been attributed to Jorge Luis Borges (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986), Argentinian poet, writer