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Too well they saw the road where they must tread / Was shrouded in a misty winding sheet, / Among whose strangling coils their souls might meet / Death, and delaying not to go, they said / Farewell to hope, to dear tasks left undone, / To well-loved faces and to length of days. -- / So came they to the parting of the ways, / A year agone, and saw no way but one.
Others, and they were many, watched them go / But turned not from the pleasant path of ease, / With hedges full of flowers, and fields of sheep.