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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON CITY STREETS, by MARGARET E. BRUNER
First Line: There have been times when on a city street
Last Line: We fear to change the old, established way.
Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life
First Line: There have been times when on a city street
Last Line: We fear to change the old, established way.
Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life
There have been times when on a city street
Where I had seen not any face I know,
The eyes of some met mine as if to greet
Me with a friendly word, a mute "hello."
But each is bound by laws of etiquette;
We may not speak the words our lips would say;
So we pass on with faces firmly set --
We fear to change the old, established way.
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