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STREET-CRIES: INTRODUCTION by SIDNEY LANIER

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First Line: OFT SEEMS THE TIME A MARKET-TOWN
Last Line: AND STILL THE WORLD GOES ROUND.
OFT seems the Time a market-town
Where many merchant-spirits meet
Who up and down and up and down
Cry out along the street
Their needs, as wares; one thus, one so:
Till all the ways are full of sound:
-- But still come rain, and sun, and snow,
And still the world goes round.



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