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I stood upon a crowded thoroughfare	A
Within a city's confines where were met	B
All classes and conditions and surveyed	C
From a secluded niche or aperture	D
The various ever changing multitude	E
Which passed along in restless turbulence	F
And as a human river ebbed and flowed	G
Within its banks of brick and masonry	H
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Within this vast and heterogeneous throng	I
One might discern all stages and degrees	J
From wealth and power to helpless indigence	J
Extravagance to trenchant penury	H
And all extremes of want and misery	H
Some blest by wealth some cursed by poverty	H
Some in positions neutral to them both	K
Some wore a gaunt and ill conditioned look	L
Which told its tale of lack of nourishment	M
While others showed that irritated air	A
Which speaks of gout and pampered appetite	N
Some following vocations quite reverse	J
From those which nature had endowed them for	O
Some passed with face self satisfied and calm	P
As if the world bore nothing else but joy	Q
And some there were who from the cradle's mouth	R
As they pursued their journey to the grave	S
Had felt no throb save that of misery	H
The man of large affairs passed by in haste	T
With mind preoccupied nor thought of else	J
Save undertakings which concerned himself	U
The shallow son of misplaced opulence	J
Came strutting by with self important air	A
With head erect in a contemptuous poise	J
As if the stars were subject to his will	V
And e'en the golden sun was something base	J
Which had offended with its wholesome light	N
In shining on so great a personage	Q
A being more than ordinary clay	W
And much superior to the vulgar herd	X
Some faces passed which knew no kindly look	L
And felt no friendly pressure of the hand	Y
And if the face depict the character	D
Some passed so steeped in crime and villainy	Z
That Judas' vile ill favored countenance	J
Would seem in contrast quite respectable	A2
Some features glowed with unfeigned honesty	H
Some grimaced in dissimulating craft	B2
Some smiled benignantly and passed along	I
Some faces meek some stern and resolute	C2
Some the embodiment of gentleness	J
Some whose specific aspects plainly told	D2
Their fondest dreams were not of earth but heaven	Z
A newly wedded couple passed that way	W
In the sweet zenith of their honeymoon	Z
But little dreaming what the future held	E2
The light and trivial fool the brainless fop	F2
The staid and sober priest and minister	D
And she who worshiped at proud fashion's shrine	Z
The mental giant serious and sad	G2
The thoughtful student and philosopher	D
And some of intellect diminutive	H2
The man of letters with abstracted mien	Z
And he whose every thought was on the toil	I2
Which made his bare existence possible	A2
The blushing maiden pure and innocent	M
The stately grandam dignified and gray	W
The matron with the babe upon her breast	J2
The silly superannuated flirt	K2
Who nursed her waning beauty day by day	W
And still essayed to act the role of youth	L2
The gay coquette and belle of other days	J
Who in life's morning with disdainful laugh	M2
Had quaffed the cup of pleasure to its dregs	J
And now grown old must pay the penalty	H
In wrinkles and uncourted loneliness	J
The widow who but newly desolate	N2
Would grasp a hand then start to find it gone	Z
The spendthrift and the sordid usurer	W
Who knew no sentiment save lust for gold	D2
The bloated drunkard sinking 'neath the weight	O2
Of wassail inclination dissolute	O2
The youth who following his baleful steps	J
Reeled for the first time from intemperance	J
And she who had forgot her covenant	O2
In brazen infamy and unwept shame	P2
The good the bad the impious and unjust	O2
The energetic and the indolent	O2
The adolescent and the venerable	A2
Passed by pursuant of their various ways	J
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The aged and decrepit plodded by	Q2
Whom one would think were ripe for any tomb	R2
Yet quailed at dissolution's very thought	O2
The crippled and deformed with cane and crutch	S2
Came limping by as eddies in the stream	T2
The mendicant whose eyes might never see	J
The golden sunlight felt his way along	I
And though the world was dark still shrank from death	U2
Some faces showed the trace of recent tears	J
And some revealed the impress of despair	W
Others endeavored with a careless smile	V2
To hide a breast surcharged with hopelessness	J
As one afflicted with a foul disease	J
Strives to avoid the scrutinizing gaze	J
By the assumption of indifference	J
Some whose misfortunes and adversities	J
And oft repeated disappointments dried	O2
The fountain heads of kindness and had turned	O2
Life's sweetest joys to gall and bitterness	J
Each face betrayed some sort or form of woe	W2
In more than one I read a tragedy	J
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How complex is existence What a maze	J
Of complication and entanglement	O2
Each thread combining with the other threads	J
Fulfills its office in the labyrinth	X2
Each link concatenates the other links	J
Which constitute the vast and endless chain	Z
Of human life and human destiny	J
The strange phantasmagoria of fate	O2
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So we in life's procession pass along	I
To the accompaniment of secret dirge	Q
Or laughter interspersed with tear and groan	Z
Nor pause a moment nor retrace a step	Y2
But march in Fate's spectacular review	Z2
In pageant to our common goal	A3
The Grave	S

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