Convention

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Title:     Convention
Author: William Dean Howells [More Titles by Howells]

He falters on the threshold,
She lingers on the stair:
Can it be that was his footstep?
Can it be that she is there?

Without is tender yearning,
And tender love is within;
They can hear each other's heart-beats,
But a wooden door is between.

[The end]
William Dean Howells's poem: Convention

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