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I Knew A Man By Sight
I knew a man by sight,
A blameless wight,
Who, for a year or more,
Had daily passed my door,
Yet converse none had with him,
I met him in a lane,
Him and his cane,
About three miles from home,
where I had chanced to roam
and volumes stared at him, and he at me.
In a more distant place
he glimpsed my face,
and he bowed to me,
bowed simultaneously, and passed along
Next, in a foreign land
I grasped his hand
and had a social chat
about the thing and that,
As I had known him well a thousand years.
late in wilderness
I shared his mess,
for he had hardships seen,
and I a wanderer been:
he was my bossom friend, and I was his
And as, methinks, shall all,
both great and small,
that ever lived on earth,
early or late their birth,
Stranger and foe, one day each other know
A blameless wight,
Who, for a year or more,
Had daily passed my door,
Yet converse none had with him,
I met him in a lane,
Him and his cane,
About three miles from home,
where I had chanced to roam
and volumes stared at him, and he at me.
In a more distant place
he glimpsed my face,
and he bowed to me,
bowed simultaneously, and passed along
Next, in a foreign land
I grasped his hand
and had a social chat
about the thing and that,
As I had known him well a thousand years.
late in wilderness
I shared his mess,
for he had hardships seen,
and I a wanderer been:
he was my bossom friend, and I was his
And as, methinks, shall all,
both great and small,
that ever lived on earth,
early or late their birth,
Stranger and foe, one day each other know
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