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Men who once tilled the pasture The wind-swept thorn beside; Women within gray, vanished walls Who bore and loved and died.

And when the great town closes

Upon me like a sea,

Daylong, above its weary din

I hear them call to me..

Dead folk, the roofs are round me

To bar out field and hill,

And yet I hear you on the wind
Calling and calling still;

And while, by street and pavement,

The day runs slowly through,

My soul across these haunted downs

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BY MICHAEL FAIRLESS.

Lord, I am small, and yet so great,
The whole world stands to my estate,
And in Thine Image I create.
The sea is mine; and the broad sky
Is mine in its immensity:
The river and the river's gold:
The earth's hid treasures manifold;
The love of creatures small and great,
Save where I reap a previous hate;
The noontide sun with not caress,
The night with quiet loneliness;
The wind that bends the pliant trees,
The whisper of the summer breeze;
The kiss of snow and rain; the star
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Am I, that lo! I needs must call,
Great King, upon the Babe in Thee,

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Withal a meager man was Aaron Stark,

Cursed and unkempt, shrewd, shriveled, and morose.
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And when he spoke there came like sullen blows
Through scattered fangs a few snarled words and close,
As if a cur were chary of its bark.

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Year after year he shambled through the town,
A loveless exile moving with a staff;
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A sound of alien pity, touched with tears,
And then (and only then) did Aaron laugh.

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