The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
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Chapter 28 THE STREET

They pass me by like shadows, crowds on crowds,

Dim ghosts of men, that hover to and fro,

Hugging their bodies round them like thin shrouds

Wherein their souls were buried long ago:

They trampled on their youth, and faith, and love,

They cast their hope of human kind away,

With Heaven's clear messages they madly strove,

And con

            
            

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