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Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.

Wayfarers

Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1812–1848)

HOW they go by—those strange and dreamlike men!

One glance on each, one gleam from out each eye,

And that I never looked upon till now,

Has vanished out of sight as instantly.

Yet in it passed there a whole heart and life,

The only key it gave that transient look;

But for this key its great event in time

Of peace or strife to me a sealèd book.