<h3 id="The_Town_Between">The Town Between</h3>
<p>A WALL impregnable surrounds<br/>
The Town wherein I dwell;<br/>
No man may scale it and it has<br/>
Two gates that guard it well.</p>
<p>One opened long ago, and I<br/>
A vagrant soul, slipped through,<br/>
Bewildered and forgetting all<br/>
The wider world I knew.</p>
<p>I love the Town, the narrow ways,<br/>
The common, yellow sun,<br/>
The handclasp and the jesting and<br/>
The work that must be done!</p>
<p>I shun the other gate that stands<br/>
Beyond the crowded mart—<br/>
I need but glance that way to feel<br/>
Cold fingers on my heart!</p>
<p>It stands alone and somberly<br/>
Within a shaded place,<br/>
And every man who turns that way<br/>
Has quiet on his face.</p>
<p>And every man must rise and leave<br/>
His pleasant homely door<br/>
To vanish through this silent gate<br/>
And enter in no more—</p>
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<p>Yet—once—I saw its opening throw<br/>
A brighter light about<br/>
And glimpsed strange glory on the brow<br/>
Of someone passing out!</p>
<p>I wonder if Outside may be<br/>
One fair and great demesne<br/>
Where both gates open, careless of<br/>
The Town that lies between?</p>
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