The Passing Stranger Poem by Adams Elizabeth Oyarese

Watch ye the passing stranger
But watch more your brothers and sisters
Who slew Abel as we was told
And who and who had Joseph sold

Watch ye the passing stranger
But watch more your own dear mother
For we have known the deceit of Rebecca
And the errs of Achilles's mother

Watch ye the passing stranger
But watch more your loving father
To a higher purchase Isaac was a sacrifice
And did not Lot offer his daughters as price

Watch ye the passing stranger
But watch more your closest neighbor
Have yet not heard the Samaritan's parable
And how often neighbors being trouble

Watch ye the passing stranger
But watch more your dearest friends
Ye need not be told again the fall of Caesar
And the most profiting kiss of Judas

Watch ye the passing stranger
But watch more your darling lover
There are but many more Delialahs
And quite a number of Queen Elenas

Watch ye the passing stranger
But watch more your own dear members
For what no man knows no man could tell
And only the tortoise can speak of its shell