text:  And who are the riders? And what is the charm that has drawn together a company of thirty to ride on the same road at the same hour of the same day? The suddenly-spun band of a union that will be as hastily dissolved squares happily with the large purpose of the poet by unforcedly bringing together persons of both sexes and of exceedingly diverse conditions high low learned unlearned military civil religious from city and from country land and sea of unlike occupations buoyant with youth grave with years