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KRASLAJORSK, SIBERIA, March 29.
"My eyes are better, and I shall travel slowly toward home." / DANENHOWER.
From the regions of the Night, / Coming with recovered sight -- / From the spell of darkness free, / What will Danenhower see?
He will see when he arrives, / Doctors taking human lives.
He will see a learned judge / Whose decision will not budge / Till both litigants are fleeced / And his palm is duly greased.
Lawyers he will see who fight / Day by day and night by night; / Never both upon a side, / Though their fees they still divide.
Preachers he will see who teach / That it is divine to preach -- / That they fan a sacred fire / And are worthy of their hire.
He will see a trusted wife
(Pride of some good husband's life) / Enter at a certain door / And -- but he will see no more.
He will see Good Templars reel -- / See a prosecutor steal, / And a father beat his child.
He'll perhaps see Oscar Wilde.
From the regions of the Night / Coming with recovered sight -- / From the bliss of blindness free, / That's what Danenhower'll see.
1882.