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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FROM THE CITY, by ALLAN UPDEGRAFF
First Line: On every side the endless, hurrying press
Last Line: And yet not all; one lacking -- can you guess?
Subject(s): Cities; Yale University; Urban Life
First Line: On every side the endless, hurrying press
Last Line: And yet not all; one lacking -- can you guess?
Subject(s): Cities; Yale University; Urban Life
ON every side the endless, hurrying press,
Streams, whirlpools, eddies of humanity:
A girl who laughs; a youth whose name might be
John Keats, or Chatterton; a scarlet dress,
A scarlet soul; a beggar bends to bless
The child who gives; a huckster motions me;
And yet for longing one dear face to see,
I think I ne'er have known such emptiness.
On every side the endless hurrying press;
Myriads of voices, undertoned by feet
Of passing throngs, and from the crowded street
The car's crescendo, and the heavier stress
Of booming drays. At every street's ingress
The diapason grows that was replete
With all of human sounds that ear might meet, --
And yet not all; one lacking -- can you guess?
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