Passing in the Night



Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and distant voice in the darkness;
So the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and silence.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
Tales of a Wayside Inn, Part III,
The Theologian's Tale
, 1873






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