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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PASSER-BY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poet's Biography
First Line: We are as children in a field at play
Last Line: I, too, shall take the road—I wonder where?
Subject(s): Courtship; Love
First Line: We are as children in a field at play
Last Line: I, too, shall take the road—I wonder where?
Subject(s): Courtship; Love
WE are as children in a field at play
Beside a road whose way we do not know,
Save that somewhere it meets the end of day.
Upon the road there is a Passer-By
Who, pausing, beckons one of us—and lo!
Quickly he goes, nor stays to tell us why.
One day I shall look up and see him there
Beckoning me, and with the Passer-By
I, too, shall take the road—I wonder where?
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