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Of The Slums.

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Red-Faced as old carousal, and with eyes     A hard, hot blue; her hair a frowsy flame,     Bold, dowdy-bosomed, from her widow-frame     She leans, her mouth all insult and all lies.     Or slattern-slippered and in sluttish gown,     With ribald mirth and words too vile to name,     A new Doll Tearsheet, glorying in her shame,     Armed with her Falstaff now she takes the town.     The flaring lights of alley-way saloons,     The reek of hideous gutters and black oaths     Of drunkenness from vice-infested dens,     Are to her senses what the silvery moon's     Chaste splendor is, and what the blossoming growths     Of earth and bird-song are to innocence.

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