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He found the road so long and lone	A
That he was fain to turn again	B
The bird's faint note the bee's low drone	A
Seemed to his heart to monotone	A
The unavailing and the vain	C
And dirge the dreams that life had slain	C
And for a while he sat him there	D
Beside the way and bared his head	E
He felt the hot sun on his hair	D
And weed warm odors everywhere	D
Waked memories forgot or dead	E
Of days when love this way had led	E
To that old house beside the road	F
With white board fence and picket gate	G
And garden plot that gleamed and glowed	F
With color and that overflowed	F
With fragrance where both soon and late	G
She 'mid the flowers used to wait	G
Was it the same or had it changed	H
As he and she with months and years	I
How long now had they been estranged	H
How far away their lives had ranged	H
Since that last meeting filled with tears	J
And boyish hopes and maiden fears	I
He closed his eyes and seemed to see	K
That parting now The moon above	L
The old house and its locust tree	K
The moths that glimmered drowsily	M
From flower to flower the scent whereof	L
Seemed portion of that oldtime love	L
Her face was lifted pale and wet	N
Her body tense as if with pain	C
He stooped yes he could see it yet	N
A moment and their young lips met	N
And then There in the lonely lane	C
He seemed to live it o'er again	B
Why had he gone 'Twas for her sake	O
But what had come of all his toil	M
The City like some monster snake	O
Had dragged him down down half awake	O
Crushing him in its grimy coil	M
Whence none escapes without a soil	M
He was not clean yet She would read	E
Failure vice written in his face	P
But haply now she had no need	Q
Of him whose life like some wild weed	Q
Full grown with evil would replace	P
The love in her heart's garden space	P
He could not bear to look and see	K
The question in those virgin eyes	R
What answer for that look had he	K
He thought it out It could not be	K
He could not live a life of lies	R
Better to break all oldtime ties	R
And then he rose The house was near	S
There where the road turned from the wood	T
Whose voice was that he seemed to hear	U
Then heart and soul were seized with fear	S
And turning as if death pursued	V
He fled into the solitude	V

Madison Julius Cawein

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