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AFTER a year I came again to the place; / The tireless lights and the reverberation, / The angry thunder of trains that burrow the ground, / The hunted, hurrying people were still the same -- / But oh, another man beside me and not you! / Another voice and other eyes in mine! / And suddenly I turned and saw again / The gleaming curve of tracks, the bridge above -- / They were burned deep into my heart before, / The night I watched them to avoid your eyes, / When you were saying, "Oh, look up at me! " / When you were saying, "Will you never love me? " / And when I answered with a lie. Oh then / You dropped your eyes. I felt your utter pain.
I would have died to say the truth to you.
After a year I came again to the place -- / The hunted hurrying people were still the same.