The Passing Stranger

Watch ye the passing stranger But watch more your brothers and sisters Who slew Abel as we was told And who and who had Joseph sold Watch ye the passing stranger But watch more your own dear mother For we have known the deceit of Rebecca And the errs of Achilles's mother Watch ye the passing stranger But watch more your loving father To a higher purchase Isaac was a sacrifice And did not Lot offer his daughters as price Watch ye the passing stranger But watch more your closest neighbor Have yet not heard the Samaritan's parable And how often neighbors being trouble Watch ye the passing stranger But watch more your dearest friends Ye need not be told again the fall of Caesar And the most profiting kiss of Judas Watch ye the passing stranger But watch more your darling lover There are but many more Delialahs And quite a number of Queen Elenas Watch ye the passing stranger But watch more your own dear members For what no man knows no man could tell And only the tortoise can speak of its shell