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A CHANCE MEETING by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS

First Line: I HAD A MOMENT'S TALK WITH HIM
Last Line: WHERE NONE BUT TRUE MEN ARE?

I had a moment's talk with him
And saw that he was good, --
A spirit candid to the brim,
Breathing of brotherhood.

A fleeting face, a stranger face
I shall not meet again,
Yet earth is now a friendlier place,
And full of better men.

If such a whiff of soul transforms
So blessedly and far,
What of that world beyond the storms,
Where none but true men are?



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