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Snow falls The sky is grey and sullenly glares	A
With purple lights in the canyoned street	B
The fiery sign on the dark tower wreathes and flares	A
The trodden grass in the park is covered with white	C
The streets grow silent beneath our feet	B
The city dreams it forgets its past to night	C
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And one from his high bright window looking down	D
Over the enchanted whiteness of the town	D
Seeing through whirls of white the vague grey towers	E
Desires like this to forget what will not pass	F
The littered papers the dust the tarnished grass	F
Grey death stale ugliness and sodden hours	E
Deep in his heart old bells are beaten again	G
Slurred bells of grief and pain	H
Dull echoes of hideous times and poisonous places	I
He desires to drown in a cold white peace of snow	J
He desires to forget a million faces	I
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In one room breathes a woman who dies of hunger	K
The clock ticks slowly and stops And no one winds it	L
In one room fade grey violets in a vase	M
Snow flakes faintly hiss and melt on the window	J
In one room minute by minute the flutist plays	N
The lamplit page of music the tireless scales	O
His hands are trembling his short breath fails	O
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In one room silently lover looks upon lover	K
And thinks the air is fire	K
The drunkard swears and touches the harlot's heartstrings	O
With the sudden hand of desire	K
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And one goes late in the streets and thinks of murder	K
And one lies staring and thinks of death	P
And one who has suffered clenches her hands despairing	Q
And holds her breath	P
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Who are all these who flow in the veins of the city	R
Coil and revolve and dream	S
Vanish or gleam	S
Some mount up to the brain and flower in fire	K
Some are destroyed some die some slowly stream	S
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And the new are born who desire to destroy the old	T
And fires are kindled and quenched and dreams are broken	U
And walls flung down	D
And the slow night whirls in snow over towers of dreamers	O
And whiteness hushes the town	D

Conrad Potter Aiken

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