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First Line: A woof reversed the fatal shuttles weave
Last Line: The other's rote of evil and of change.
Subject(s): Hyde Park, London; Labor Unions; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts


A WOOF reversed the fatal shuttles weave,
How slow! but never once they slip the thread
Hither, upon the Georgian idlers' tread,
Up spacious ways the lindens interleave,

Clouding the royal air since yester-eve,
Come men bereft of time and scant of bread,
Loud, who were dumb, immortal, who were dead,
Thro' the cowed world their kingdom to retrieve.

What ails thee, England? Altar, mart, and grange
Dream of the knife by night; not so, not so
The clear Republic waits the general throe,
Along her noonday mountains' open range.
Gods be with both! for one is young to know
The other's rote of evil and of change.






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