“WAYFARERS”
by Ellen Sturgis Hooper

How they go by—those strange and dreamlike men!
   One glance on each, one gleam from out each eye,
And that I never looked upon till now,
   Has vanished out of sight as instantly.

Yet in it passed there a whole heart and life,
   The only key it gave that transient look;.
But for this key its great event in time
   Of peace or strife to me a sealed book.


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