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No dusty street with ceaseless tre;uU 



WluM-e Crime stalks rainiiant tlir()U,<i;li tlie day. 

 Where starving; beggars sue lor hread. 

 And Fasliion rules with ruthless sway. 

 Where idle Folly Haunts in silk 

 And bal)es drink liquid chalk for milk. 



Where Tratlic's gaze with Jealous eye 



Is tixed upon a subject world: 

 ^Vho lioasts her tril)ute, none deny. 

 Willie o'er all seas her llai's unfurled — 



Where every scheme, thougli I'oul or fair. 

 Is boldly grasped to swell lier share. 



Where scents of gas and garbage rise. 



And trees and i)lants begrimed with smoke 

 Offensive to the taste and eyes. 

 That all tlie liner feelings choke; 



Where sewage taints the cooling draught 

 And every baleful bev'rage quaffed. 



Where gold is sought at any <;ost. 



And hearts beguiled by Pride's red Hame — 

 Where honest aims of life are lost. 

 And .lustice hides her head in shame. 



Where wealth becomes mere gilded show, 

 And poverty a wail of woe. 



Hut here amid home's sweetest charms. 



Far from the city's seething tide, 

 They never know its wild alarms 

 Nor feel its l)reatli of ])omiions pride — 

 Nor 'mid tliese scenes has ever yet 

 El)bed back the tide of vain regret. 



Full two decades of life serene 



Have winged their sunny Might away — 

 Success stood bv with smiling mien 



While health and wealth have Ijorne fnll sway. 

 Their children grown to manhood's state 



. Endowed with many a noble trait. 



Sweet converse they with nature hold 



Which gives their lives a calm content-- 

 Thev do not feel they'r growing old. 

 Though lifty years of life are spent. 

 Xor do tl-.ey know old age, or pains, 

 For manhood's vigor still remains. 



But soon old age comes stealing on, 



Yet lightly lays his withered hand — 

 The buovant step at length is gone 



But life's broad stream Hows smooth and crand, 

 And gliding down through i)eaceful vales 

 'Neath sunny skies unswept by gales. 



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