Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WINDOWS, by BERTON BRALEY


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First Line: We're livin' out here in the country now
Last Line: Where I watched as the world went by.
Subject(s): Cities; Collective Behavior; Streets; Windows; Urban Life; Mobs; Crowds; Avenues


We're livin' out here in the country now,
An' I guess it's the place to be,
Where there's sun and air; an' yet, somehow,
It don't give no thrill to me.
We're outa the city's dust an' heat,
But often my heart will cry
For my tenement window on Baxter Street
Where I watched as the world went by.

Why here, when I leans on the window-sill,
There's nothin' to greet my gaze
But a road that's empty and lone and still
Unchangin' for days an' days;
Then I feels my pulse get a faster beat
When I think of what met my eye
When I leaned from my window in Baxter Street
An' watched as the world went by.

There was crowds an' movement an' dirt an' noise
An' it never was twict the same,
There was men and women an' girls an' boys,
An' seen from my window frame,
There was babies sprawlin' underfeet
Where the fightin' an' fun ran high,
When I leaned from my window on Baxter Street
An' watched as the world went by.

An' I needn't to stir from that window there
To know how the whole world rolls
With its love an' hate an' its joy an' care
An' its battles that stir men's souls;
An' so, though the country air is sweet
An' it's roomy and free, I sigh
Sometimes for my window on Baxter Street
Where I watched as the world went by.





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