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If I should learn, in some quite casual way, / That you were gone, not to return again-
Read from the back-page of a paper, say, / Held by a neighbor in a subway train, / How at the corner of this avenue
And such a street (so are the papers filled) A hurrying man, who happened to be you, / At noon today had happened to be killed- I should not cry aloud-I could not cry
Aloud, or wring my hands in such a place- I should but watch the station lights rush by
With a more careful interest on my face; Or raise my eyes and read with greater care
Where to store furs and how to treat the hair.