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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WOOSTER SQUARE, by SIDNEY N. DEANE
First Line: The sunshine yet on wooster square
Last Line: Peace to the shades of wooster square!
Subject(s): Yale University
First Line: The sunshine yet on wooster square
Last Line: Peace to the shades of wooster square!
Subject(s): Yale University
THE sunshine yet on Wooster Square
Is bright as years and years ago;
The elms are taller, greener there:
But Fashion's favor changeth so!
The glooming Grecian portico,
The ancient, marred, much-trodden stair
Forgets the days of long-ago,
Forgets the days of Wooster Square.
The old white church in Wooster Square
Where godly people met and prayed --
Dear souls! they worship Mary there,
Italian mother, man and maid
In gaudy Southern scarfs arrayed;
The horrid candles smoulder where
The godly people met and prayed.
Alas! the fall of Wooster Square!
Before the war, in Wooster Square
The carriages, they went and came;
The common folk used wait and stare,
They bowed to beauty and to Fame.
And then it ceased to be the same;
The doors are tarnished all and bare
Where shone each old Colonial name
Departed now from Wooster Square.
O Fashion, fled from Wooster Square
And tripping fast up Prospect Hill
Where orioles flame through fragrant air,
Where daisies light the roadside still,
What was it changed your flighty will,
What fickle fancy made you care
To take the way of Prospect Hill,
To leave the walls of Wooster Square?
Be done, be done, with tiresome rhymes!
I go with Fortune and the Fair,
I owe no love to bygone times --
Peace to the shades of Wooster Square!
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