• We summoned not the Silent Guest,
      And no man spake his name;
    By lips unseen our Cup was pressed,
    And mid the merry song and jest,
      The Uninvited came.

    Wise were they in the days of old,
      Who gave the Stranger place;
    And when the joyous catch was trolled,
    And toasts were quaffed and tales were told,
      They looked him...