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Before the grass grew over me, / I knew one good man through and through, / And knew a soul and body joined / Are stronger than the heavens are blue.
A wisdom worthy of thy joy, / O great heart, read I as I ran; / Now, though men smite me on the face, / I cannot curse the face of man.
I loved the man I saw yestreen / Hanged with his babe's blood on his palms. / I loved the man I saw to-day / Who knocked not when he came with alms.
Hush! -- for thy sake I even faced / The knowledge that is worse than hell; / And loved the man I saw but now / Hanging head downwards in the well.