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The Highway<br />

Highwav% worn b^' <strong>the</strong> Imnying feet <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> present and <strong>the</strong> past.<br />

Pilgrim and reveller straying, slip silently from <strong>the</strong>e at last:<br />

ReA^ellers plucking <strong>the</strong> rose, and wanderers seeking a shrine.<br />

How shall we know<br />

Whi<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong>y go—<br />

What is <strong>the</strong> .secret <strong>of</strong> time?<br />

HighwaA', on mornings <strong>of</strong> Maj', <strong>the</strong> little white feet <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> bride<br />

Fread over <strong>the</strong>e bli<strong>the</strong>lj^ and free, and gaj^ is <strong>the</strong> Prince at her side:<br />

But dim in <strong>the</strong> rains <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> dusk with wavings <strong>of</strong> cj'press and plume.<br />

Solemn and slow.<br />

Funerals go<br />

Back fo <strong>the</strong> bosom <strong>of</strong> gloom.<br />

Highway, past meadow and mart, deep-strewn with <strong>the</strong> life <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

past,<br />

HoAV shall we travel? How stay our hearts from <strong>the</strong>ir breaking at<br />

last?<br />

S<strong>of</strong>t! for <strong>the</strong> Avild rose starring <strong>the</strong> dust that <strong>the</strong> centuries trod.<br />

Stirs in her place<br />

With <strong>the</strong> infinite face<br />

Of Heaven and Hope and God.<br />

piigc three huiidretl iind four<br />

—V. B.

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