<h3> <SPAN name="neighbors"></SPAN> Neighbors<br/> </h3>
<p>As often as we thought of her,<br/>
We thought of a gray life<br/>
That made a quaint economist<br/>
Of a wolf-haunted wife;<br/>
We made the best of all she bore<br/>
That was not ours to bear,<br/>
And honored her for wearing things<br/>
That were not things to wear.<br/></p>
<p>There was a distance in her look<br/>
That made us look again;<br/>
And if she smiled, we might believe<br/>
That we had looked in vain.<br/>
Rarely she came inside our doors,<br/>
And had not long to stay;<br/>
And when she left, it seemed somehow<br/>
That she was far away.<br/></p>
<p>At last, when we had all forgot<br/>
That all is here to change,<br/>
A shadow on the commonplace<br/>
Was for a moment strange.<br/>
Yet there was nothing for surprise,<br/>
Nor much that need be told:<br/>
Love, with his gift of pain, had given<br/>
More than one heart could hold.<br/></p>
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