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The Three Strangers

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Far are those tranquil hills,     Dyed with fair evening's rose; On urgent, secret errand bent,      A traveller goes. Approach him strangers three,     Barefooted, cowled; their eyes Scan the lone, hastening solitary      With dumb surmise. One instant in close speech     With them he doth confer: God-sped, he hasteneth on,      That anxious traveller ... I was that man - in a dream:     And each world's night in vain I patient wait on sleep to unveil      Those vivid hills again. Would that they three could know     How yet burns on in me Love - from one lost in Paradise -      For their grave courtesy.

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