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From State street bridge a snow white glimpse of sea	A
Beyond the river walled in by red buildings	B
O'ertopped by masts that take the sunset's gildings	B
Roped to the wharf till spring shall set them free	A
Great floes make known how swift the river's current	C
Out of the north sky blows a cutting wind	D
Smoke from the stacks and engines in a torrent	C
Whirls downward by the eddying breezes thinned	E
Enskyed are sign boards advertising soap	F
Tobacco coal transcontinental trains	B
A tug is whistling straining at a rope	F
Fixed to a dredge with derricks scoops and cranes	B
Down in the loop the blue gray air enshrouds	B
As with a cyclops' cape the man made hills	B
And towers of granite where the city crowds	B
Above the din a copper's whistle shrills	B
There is a smell of coffee and of spices	B
We near the market place of trade's devices	B
Blue smoke from out a roasting room is pouring	G
A rooster crows geese cackle men are bawling	G
Whips crack trucks creak it is the place of storing	G
And drawing out and loading up and hauling	G
Fruit vegetables and fowls and steaks and hams	B
Oysters and lobsters fish and crabs and clams	B
And near at hand are restaurants and bars	B
Hotels with rooms at fifty cents a day	H
Beer tunnels pool rooms places where cigars	B
And cigarettes their window signs display	H
Mixed in with letterings of printed tags	B
Twine boxes cartels sacks and leather bags	B
Wigs telescopes eyeglasses ladies' tresses	B
Or those who manicure or fashion dresses	B
Or sell us putters tennis balls or brassies	B
Make shoes pull teeth or fit the eye with glasses	B
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And now the rows of windows showing laces	B
Silks draperies and furs and costly vases	B
Watches and mirrors silver cups and mugs	B
Emeralds diamonds Indian Persian rugs	B
Hats velvets silver buckles ostrich plumes	B
Drugs violet water powder and perfumes	B
Here is a monstrous winking eye beneath	I
A showcase by an entrance full of teeth	I
Here rubber coats umbrellas mackintoshes	B
Hoods rubber boots and arctics and galoshes	B
Here is half a block of overcoats	B
In this bleak time of snow and slender throats	B
Then windows of fine linen snakewood canes	B
Scarfs opera hats in use where fashion reigns	B
As when the hive swarms so the crowded street	J
Roars to the shuffling of innumerable feet	J
Skyscrapers soar above them they go by	K
As bees crawl little scales upon the skin	L
Of a great dragon winding out and in	L
Above them hangs a tangled tree of signs	B
Suspended or uplifted like d dalian	M
Hieroglyphics when the saturnalian	M
Night commences and their racing lines	B
Run fire of blue and yellow in a puzzle	N
Bewildering to the eyes of those who guzzle	N
And gourmandize and stroll and seek the bubble	N
Of happiness to put away their trouble	N
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Around the loop the elevated crawls	B
And giant shadows sink against the walls	B
Where ten to twenty stories strive to hold	O
The pale refraction of the sunset's gold	O
Slop underfoot we pass beneath the loop	P
The crowd is uglier poorer there are smells	B
As from the depths of unsuspected hells	B
And from a groggery where beer and soup	P
Are sold for five cents to the thieves and bums	B
Here now are huge cartoons in red and blue	Q
Of obese women and of skeleton men	M
Egyptian dancers twined with monstrous snakes	B
Before the door a turbaned lithe Hindoo	O
A bagpipe shrilling underneath a den	M
Of opium whence a man with hand that shakes	B
Rolling a cigarette so palely comes	B
The clang of car bells and the beat of drums	B
Draft horses clamping with their steel shod hoofs	B
The buildings have grown small and black and worn	M
The sky is more beholden o'er the roofs	B
A flock of pigeons soars with dresses torn	M
And yellow faces labor women pass	B
Some Chinese gabbling and there buying fruit	O
Stands a fair girl who is a late recruit	O
To those poor women slain each year by lust	O
'Tis evening now and trade will soon begin	M
The family entrance beckons for a glass	B
Of hopeful mockery the piano's din	M
Into the street with sounds of rasping wires	B
Filters and near a pawner's window shows	B
Pistols accordions and luring buyers	B
A Jew stands mumbling to the passer by	K
Of jewelry and watches and old clothes	B
A limousine gleams quickly with a cry	K
A legless man fastened upon a board	O
With casters 'neath it by a sudden shove	R
Darts out of danger And upon the corner	S
A lassie tells a man that God is love	R
Holding a tambourine with its copper hoard	O
To be augmented by the drunken scorner	S
A woman with no eyeballs in her sockets	B
Plays Rock of Ages on a wheezy organ	M
A newsboy with cold hands thrust in his pockets	B
Cries All about the will of Pierpont Morgan	M
The roofline of the street now sinks and dwindles	B
The windows are begrimed with dust and beer	S
A child half clothed with legs as thin as spindles	B
Carries a basket with some bits of coal	T
Between lace curtains eyes of yellow leer	S
The cheeks splotched with white places like the skin	M
Inside an eggshell destitute of soul	T
One sees a brass lamp oozing kerosene	M
Upon a stand whereon her elbows lean	M
Lighted it soon will welcome negroes in	M
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The railroad tracks are near We almost choke	G
From filth whirled from the street and stinging vapors	B
Great engines vomit gas and heavy smoke	G
Upon a north wind driving tattered papers	B
Dry dung and dust and refuse down the street	O
A circumambient roar as of a wheel	U
Whirring far off a monster's heart whose beat	O
Is full of murmurs comes as we retreat	O
Towards Twenty second And a man with jaw	V
Set like a tiger's with a dirty beard	O
Skulks toward the loop with heavy wrists red raw	S
Glowing above his pockets where his hands	B
Pushed tensely round his hips the coat tails draw	V
And show what seems a slender piece of metal	N
In his hip pocket On these barren strands	B
He waits for midnight for old scores to settle	N
Against his ancient foe society	O
Who keeps the soup house and who builds the jails	B
Switchmen and firemen with their dinner pails	B
Go by him homeward and he wonders if	W
These fellows know a hundred thousand workers	B
Walk up and down the city's highways stiff	W
From cold and hunger doomed to poverty	O
As wretched as the thieves and crooks and shirkers	B
He scurries to the lake front loiters past	O
The windows of wax lights with scarlet shades	B
Where smiling diners back of ambuscades	B
Of silk and velvet hear not winter's blast	O
Blowing across the lake He has a thought	O
Of Michigan where once at picking berries	B
He spent a summer then his eye is caught	O
At Randolph street by written light which tarries	B
Then like a film runs into sentences	B
He sees it all as from a black abyss	B
Taxis with skid chains rattle limousines	B
Draw up to awnings for a space he catches	B
A scent of musk or violets sees the patches	B
On powdered cheeks of furred and jeweled queens	B
The color round his cruel mouth grows whiter	S
He thrusts his coarse hands in his pockets tighter	S
He is a thief he knows he is a thief	X
He is a thief found out and as he knows	B
The whole loop is a kingdom held in fief	X
By men who work with laws instead of blows	B
From sling shots so he curses under breath	Y
The money and the invisible hand that owns	B
From year to year in spite of change and death	Y
The wires for the lights and telephones	B
The railways on the streets and overhead	O
The railways and beneath the winding tunnel	N
Which crooks stole from the city for a runnel	N
To drain her nickels and the pipes of lead	O
Which carry gas wrapped round us like a snake	G
And round the courts whose grip no court can break	G
He curses bitterly all those who rise	B
And rule by just the spirit which he plies	B
Coarsely against the world's great store of wealth	Z
Bankers and usurers and cliques whose stealth	Z
Works witchcraft through the market and the press	B
And hires editors or owns the stock	G
Controlling papers playing with finesse	B
The city's thinking that they may unlock	G
Treasures and powers like burglars in the dark	G
And thinking thus and cursing through a flurry	O
Of sudden snow he hastens on to Clark	G
In a cheap room there is an eye to mark	G
His coming and be glad His footsteps hurry	O
She will have money earned this afternoon	M
Through men who took her from a near saloon	M
Wherein she sits at table to dragoon	M
Roughnecks or simpletons upon a lark	G
Within a little hall a fierce eyed youth	A2
Rants of the burdens on the people's backs	B
He would cure all things with the single tax	B
A clergyman demands more gospel truth	A2
Speaking to Christians at a weekly dinner	S
A parlor Marxian for a beginner	S
Would take the railways And amid applause	B
Where lawyers dine a judge says all will be	O
Well if we hand down to posterity	O
Respect for courts and judges and the laws	B
An anarchist would fight Upon the whole	N
Another thinks to cultivate one's soul	N
Is most important let the passing show	B2
Go where it wills and where it wills to go	B2
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Outside the stars look down Stars are content	O
To be so quiet and indifferent	O