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THE LAMENT OF A ONE-WAY STREET, by                    
First Line: All day
Last Line: And I, once more, a two-way street.
Subject(s): Streets; Avenues


All day,
One way,
Along my cobbled length,
Pass Youth and Age, -- Pass Frailty and Strength,
The handsome equipage, the shabby hack, --
But none of these comes back.

I yearn
To learn
The Whither and the Hence,
The goal, the Mission and the Consequence,
But even milkmen, heralds of the day,
Go home another way.

Would Fate
A straight
Smooth pavement were my lot,
With blue-coats at each vulnerable spot
Where arteries and veins of traffic meet, --
And I, once more, a Two-Way Street.





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