These were some of the band. For better or worse They were all strong men. The bearded faces look strange In the old daguerreotypes: they should be the faces Of prosperous, small-town people, good sons and fathers, Good horse-shoe pitchers, good at plowing a field, Good at swapping stories and good at praying, American wheat, firm-rooted, good in the ear. There is only one whose air seems out of the common, Oliver Brown. That face has a masculine beauty Somewhat like the face of Keats. They were all strong men.