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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONGS OF NEW YORK: NEXT DOOR, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poet's Biography
First Line: We saw the tapers burn
Last Line: And my neighbor grieves -- alone, alone!
Subject(s): Death; New York City; Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple
First Line: We saw the tapers burn
Last Line: And my neighbor grieves -- alone, alone!
Subject(s): Death; New York City; Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple
WE saw the tapers burn
In the home so close to ours;
But however our hearts might yearn,
We dared not send our flowers.
"He will not understand," we said,
"Our loving thought of his loved dead."
O City! thus you hide
The pity in every heart!
Those who are at our side
You sunder a world apart.
A little barrier built of stone --
And my neighbor grieves -- alone, alone!
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