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1   SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by-     road — lo! such faces!
Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity,      ideality;
The spiritual prescient face — the always welcome,      common, benevolent face,
The face of the singing of music — the grand faces of      natural lawyers and judges, broad at the back-     top;
The faces of hunters and fishers, bulged at the brows —      the shaved blanch'd faces of orthodox citizens;
The pure, extravagant, yearning, questioning artist's      face;
The ugly face of some beautiful Soul, the handsome      detested or despised face;
The sacred faces of infants, the illuminated face of the      mother of many children;
The face of an amour, the face of veneration;
The face as of a dream, the face of an immobile rock;
The face withdrawn of its good and bad, a castrated      face;
A wild hawk, his wings clipp'd by the clipper;
A stallion that yielded at last to the thongs and knife      of the gelder.
2  Sauntering the pavement, thus, or crossing the      ceaseless ferry, faces, and faces, and faces:
I see them, and complain not, and am content with      all.