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GHOSTS OF BROADWAY by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY

First Line: THE WAN GHOST OF THE MOON
Last Line: WHO HAD NOT DIED!
Subject(s): BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY; GHOSTS; SUPERNATURAL;

THE wan ghost of the moon
Goes, wistful, by,
Forgotten, futile,
In the flaring sky
Above Broadway,
With none to look at her—
The lights bedazzle
Every reveler!

So might, I think,
The restless ghost return
To Broadway,
Where the lights forever burn,
Of some gay chorus lady,
Once its pride,
The wistful ghost of one—
Who had not died!



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