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I, too, have waiting eyes
Oh, please stop here!

— Mary Ainge DeVere (Century Magazine, 1888)

The Looked-for Man

He “is not fair to outward view”;
Oh, no! quite plain is he,
With “commonplace”
Writ on his face
For all the world to see.

He ne’er has “faced the cannon’s mouth”;
Or “sailed the raging main”;
Or “snatched a child”
With courage wild,
Before a rushing train.

He is not rich, or bright, or young;
Yet, when he walks the street,
The fairest maids
Lift window-shades
And listen for his feet;

And if he stops, the proudest dame
Seems pleased—or heaves a sigh
If, walking fast,
She sees at last
The postman pass her by.

— Margaret Gilman George (Century Magazine, 1891)

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