Back From A Two-Years' Sentence! And Though It Had Been Ten, You Think, I Were Scarred No Deeper In The Eyes Of My Fellow-Men. "My Fellow-Men?" Sounds Like A Satire, You Think - And I So Allow, Here In My Home Since Childhood, Yet More Than A Stranger Now! Pardon! Not Wholly A Stranger, For I Have A Wife And Child: That Woman Has Wept For Two Long Years, And Yet Last Night She Smiled! Smiled, As I Leapt From The Platform Of The Midnight Train, And Then - All That I Knew Was That Smile Of Hers, And Our Babe In My Arms Again! Back From A Two-Years' Sentence - But I've Thought The Whole Thing Through, A Hint Of It Came When The Bars Swung Back And I Looked Straight Up In The Blue Of The Blessed Skies With My Hat Off! O-Ho! I've A Wife And Child: That Woman Has Wept For Two Long Years, And Yet Last Night She Smiled!
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