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TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE TRIUMPH OF CIVILISATION, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the outskirts of a great city
Last Line: Other than hers.
Subject(s): Civilization; Humanity


ON the outskirts of a great city,
A street of fashionable mansions well withdrawn from all the noise and
bustle;
And in the street—the only figure there—in the middle of the
road, in the bitter wind,
Red-nosed, thin-shawled, with ancles bare and old boots,
A woman bent and haggard, croaking a dismal song.

And the great windows stare upon her wretchedness, and stare across the
road upon each other,
With big fool eyes;
But not a door is opened, not a face is seen,
Nor form of life down all the dreary street,
To certify the existence of humanity—
Other than hers.





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