:52:00
and good and true.
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When at last we parted company,
he presented me with his eyeglasses.
:52:07
I was too young, he said...
:52:09
but one day they would
serve me well.
:52:12
And in fact, I am wearing them now
on my nose as I write these lines.
:52:17
Then he embraced fondly, like a father,
and sent me on my way.
:52:23
I never saw him again,
and know not what became of him...
:52:26
but I pray always that God
received his soul...
:52:29
and forgave the many little
vanities to which was driven...
:52:32
by his intellectual pride.
:52:36
And yet, now that I'm
an old, old man...
:52:40
I must confess that of all the
faces that appear to me out of the past...
:52:45
the one I see most clearly
is that of the girl...
:52:49
of whom I have never ceased
to dream...
:52:52
these many long years.
:52:55
She was the only earthly
love of my life...
:52:59
yet I never knew
nor ever learned...