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Before the grass grew over me,     I knew one good man through and through,     And knew a soul and body joined     Are stronger than the heavens are blue.     A wisdom worthy of thy joy,     O great heart, read I as I ran;     Now, though men smite me on the face,     I cannot curse the face of man.     I loved the man I saw yestreen     Hanged with his babe's blood on his palms.     I loved the man I saw to-day     Who knocked not when he came with alms.     Hush!--for thy sake I even faced     The knowledge that is worse than hell;     And loved the man I saw but now     Hanging head downwards in the well.

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