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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