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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SMALL TOWN, by JEAN CHALMERS DONALDSON
First Line: They lived away down 'cross the railroad track
Last Line: Saying their prayers -- that's all that I could see.
First Line: They lived away down 'cross the railroad track
Last Line: Saying their prayers -- that's all that I could see.
They lived away down 'cross the railroad track
And everybody said that they were scum.
They had no "family tree" and there was lack,
No doubt, of any "culture"; they had come
From common stock and not the slightest doubt --
They owned a squeaky car, a radio
Whose raucous din would fairly drown you out....
Two so-called joys most poverty would know.
But I have seen them walking hand in hand
Upon the street as if the world were theirs;
I stopped one night for fruit at Louie's stand
Across from them, I glanced in unawares
And I could see two urchins at her knee
Saying their prayers -- that's all that I could see.
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