“ROOM for the leper! room!” And as he came
The cry passed on,—“Room for the leper! room!”*        *        *        *        *
                And aside they stood,
Matron, and child, and pitiless manhood,—all
Who met him on his way,—and let him pass.
And onward through the open gate he came,
A leper with the ashes on his brow,
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