Granny!”
But she seized the reins and said:
“Good doctor! Be the one man in the world—”
And why it was he knew not, but he went
Where she did, down the sod road toward that moldy
Building where no hymnsong had been heard
Since war days, and where beggars—did she lie?—
Might be or not be.
So when Hermes came,
And Gabriel, there was silence on the highway—