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The Walk

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You did not walk with me         Of late to the hill-top tree          By the gated ways,          As in earlier days;          You were weak and lame,          So you never came,     And I went alone, and I did not mind,     Not thinking of you as left behind.         I walked up there to-day         Just in the former way:          Surveyed around          The familiar ground          By myself again:          What difference, then?     Only that underlying sense     Of the look of a room on returning thence.

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