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I saw by looking in his eyes	A
That they remembered everything	B
And this was how I came to know	C
That he was here still wandering	B
For though the figure and the scene	D
Were never to be reconciled	E
I knew the man as I had known	F
His image when I was a child	E
	-
With evidence at every turn	G
I should have held it safe to guess	H
That all the newness of New York	I
Had nothing new in loneliness	J
Yet here was one who might be Noah	K
Or Nathan or Abimelech	L
Or Lamech out of ages lost	M
Or more than all Melchizedek	I
	-
Assured that he was none of these	N
I gave them back their names again	O
To scan once more those endless eyes	A
Where all my questions ended then	O
I found in them what they revealed	P
That I shall not live to forget	Q
And wondered if they found in mine	R
Compassion that I might regret	Q
	-
Pity I learned was not the least	S
Of time's offending benefits	T
That had now for so long impugned	U
The conservation of his wits	T
Rather it was that I should yield	P
Alone the fealty that presents	V
The tribute of a tempered ear	W
To an untempered eloquence	X
	-
Before I pondered long enough	Y
On whence he came and who he was	Z
I trembled at his ringing wealth	A2
Of manifold anathemas	Z
I wondered while he seared the world	B2
What new defection ailed the race	Z
And if it mattered how remote	C2
Our fathers were from such a place	Z
	-
Before there was an hour for me	D2
To contemplate with less concern	G
The crumbling realm awaiting us	Z
Than his that was beyond return	G
A dawning on the dust of years	Z
Had shaped with an elusive light	E2
Mirages of remembered scenes	Z
That were no longer for the sight	E2
	-
For now the gloom that hid the man	F2
Became a daylight on his wrath	G2
And one wherein my fancy viewed	H2
New lions ramping in his path	G2
The old were dead and had no fangs	Z
Wherefore he loved them seeing not	I2
They were the same that in their time	J2
Had eaten everything they caught	I2
	-
The world around him was a gift	K2
Of anguish to his eyes and ears	Z
And one that he had long reviled	E
As fit for devils not for seers	Z
Where then was there a place for him	L2
That on this other side of death	M2
Saw nothing good as he had seen	D
No good come out of Nazareth	N2
	-
Yet here there was a reticence	Z
And I believe his only one	O2
That hushed him as if he beheld	E
A Presence that would not be gone	P2
In such a silence he confessed	E
How much there was to be denied	E
And he would look at me and live	Q2
As others might have looked and died	E
	-
As if at last he knew again	O
That he had always known his eyes	Z
Were like to those of one who gazed	E
On those of One who never dies	Z
For such a moment he revealed	E
What life has in it to be lost	E
And I could ask if what I saw	Z
Before me there was man or ghost	E
	-
He may have died so many times	Z
That all there was of him to see	D2
Was pride that kept itself alive	Q2
As too rebellious to be free	D2
He may have told when more than once	Z
Humility seemed imminent	E
How many a lonely time in vain	R2
The Second Coming came and went	E
	-
Whether he still defies or not	E
The failure of an angry task	I
That relegates him out of time	J2
To chaos I can only ask	I
But as I knew him so he was	Z
And somewhere among men to day	E
Those old unyielding eyes may flash	L
And flinch and look the other way	E

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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