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They say that I shall find him if I go     Along the dusty highways, or the green     Tracks of the downland shepherds, or between     The swaying corn, or where cool waters flow;     And others say, that speak as if they know,     That daily in the cities, in the mean     Dark streets, amid the crowd he may be seen,     With thieves and harlots wandering to and fro.     But I am blind. How shall a blind man dare     Venture along the roaring crowded street,     Or branching roads where I may never hit     The way he has gone? But someday if I sit     Quietly at this corner listening, there     May come this way the slow sound of his feet.

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