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4. At the End of the Day
Two on a moor befogged I found. One sat,
Hunched on a stone, beside a burnt-out fire.
One posed with drabbled peacock-feathered hat.
And both were old, starved, squalid in attire.
Hunched on a stone, beside a burnt-out fire.
One posed with drabbled peacock-feathered hat.
And both were old, starved, squalid in attire.
“You seem,” said I to him upon the stone,
“Old friends new met in unexpected woe.”
“Yes,” sighed the man; “my name is Had-I-known.”
“And his?” “Oh, his!” he laughed—“I-told-you-so.”
“Old friends new met in unexpected woe.”
“Yes,” sighed the man; “my name is Had-I-known.”
“And his?” “Oh, his!” he laughed—“I-told-you-so.”
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