<p><SPAN name="THE_MOTHER" id="THE_MOTHER"></SPAN>THE MOTHER</p>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">So quietly I seem to sit apart;</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I think she does not know or guess at all,</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">How dear this certain hour to my old heart,</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">When in our quiet street the shadows fall.</span><br/>
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<span style="margin-left: 2em;">She leans and listens at the little gate.</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I sit so still, not any eye might see</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">How watchfully before her there I wait</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">For that one step that brings my world to me.</span><br/>
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<span style="margin-left: 2em;">She does not know that long before they meet</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">(So eagerly must go a love athirst),</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">My heart outstrips the flying of her feet,</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And meets and greets him first—and greets him first.</span><br/>
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