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Show SONG OF THE STREET. I Will. nil lit J.J JCl oui.l. tiJ i.nrple 3-:J ' U-. D fret. A ".mill I" "'-y"1 (!'tr'''"'"a lUs" "Siarvi ! Slirvo ! Starve! Oli.OoJ! 'tiiti frful nilit! Hutt ' o ivid.I Jies L'l'j-.T llio site! oJ SDOWl Will it ever Hfc-aia lv liglit! "I hivi rung at tlip 'Bofuije' telt. I liuve ! nt ibo ork-lic uio Uuor, To bo i, 1.1 nsmiu thiit I clamor in vin, TLoy uru 'full;' ilioy fin hold no uiore. Starve! fctnrve! Siarrel Of ibo cruwja thut ais mo by. Sum uli j.ity, mid luiue In prule. 111! I mom witli ImlitTcrciicp turn mil do A utl Iovo me htfie to die! Oil, yen who uleop in beds, Willi coverlet, quill and sheet. Oh tliink, wlien it snows, wlmi It is for tboao Tbii: IU ia the ojii'O aireot; Tliat 1I In llie oj,rn streol, Ou llie cold and rnzeu stooca, W linn the winter's Most, na it ivhistlcs paat. Bite lato the very botei, Ob, what with ilia wIdJ without. Aud what with the cold witliiu, I own I h ive lou-lit t j drive u way ttouylit, Wtli Unit cursf of the temiited Gis. D.-iukl Drlufe! Drink! Amid ribaldry, in on J glare, If tlieru'n hell oti narlb, ' Ci the tbaaily mirth That ni ud Jo us at uii luight, Tueee. Oh, ynu Hint havo never ! rayed, Ucl-uimo yon Lnve never been tried. Oh, luuk not down with a rimri--iVfl frown On Ihofe who have swerved aside. Anil, you thnt hold tho scnlea. And you that (,-libly urge That tho only plin U the prison van, llie dungooo, or Ibo (courj;e. Oh what nro the lest toilo7 To furnish and not to feel? For days to go, nnd never to know Wlnl ia to briYooso meal? Tlmv oannol buy, they dare nol bc Tbey must cither starve or steal. Food! food! food! If It bo but a loaf ofbreadl And a jiluce to lie, A nd a place to die, If it be but a workhouse bed! If yon will not give lo those that live, Yoo, at least, mut bury tho dead!" Willi tisall lividnnd blue, An! purple and swollen Icet, A woman in ragj at down ou the flag, And laug the song of the street, As elio ci'ased the doleful stnuo, Wt homsward pnth I trod; And tli cry and tlie prayer Ol that lost one theie Went up to the throne of God, |
