Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they …

John Dryden
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Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd. ✨ John Dryden (1855). The Poetical Works, p.184
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Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd. ✨ John Dryden (1855). The Poetical Works, p.184

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