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The Subalterns

 I

"Poor wanderer," said the leaden sky,
 "I fain would lighten thee,
But there are laws in force on high
 Which say it must not be.
" II --"I would not freeze thee, shorn one," cried The North, "knew I but how To warm my breath, to slack my stride; But I am ruled as thou.
" III --"To-morrow I attack thee, wight," Said Sickness.
"Yet I swear I bear thy little ark no spite, But am bid enter there.
" IV --"Come hither, Son," I heard Death say; "I did not will a grave Should end thy pilgrimage to-day, But I, too, am a slave!" V We smiled upon each other then, And life to me had less Of that fell look it wore ere when They owned their passiveness.

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