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Tis William Street the link street	A
That seems to stand alone	B
Tis William Street the vague street	A
With terraces of stone	B
That starts with clean cool pockets	C
And ancient stable ways	D
And built by solid landlords	E
And in more solid days	D
Beginning where the shadow streets	F
Of vacant wealth begin	G
Street William runs down sadly	H
Across the vale of sin	G
Tis William Street the haggard	I
Where all the streets are mean	J
That s trying to be honest	K
That s trying to keep clean	J
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Tis William Street with method	L
And nought of show or pride	M
That tries to keep its business	N
Upon the right hand side	M
No pavement exhibition	O
Of carcases and slops	N
But old established principles	N
In old established shops	N
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Tis William Street the highway	P
Whichever way it be	H
To business and the theatres	N
Or empty luxury	H
Tis William Street the East end	Q
The world wise and exempt	R
That sells Potts Point its purgatives	N
With something of contempt	R
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With fronts that hint of England	S
As England used to be	H
Old houses once in gardens	N
And signs of Italy	H
With hints of the forgotten	O
Strange Sydney of the past	T
When bricks were burnt for all time	U
And walls were built to last	T
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Tis William Street that rises	N
From stagnant dust and heat	A
Old trees by the Museum	V
Hold back with hands and feet	A
And where the blind are plying	W
Deft fingers supple wrists	N
Tis William Street exclusive	X
Where pray the Methodists	N
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The blind courts see the clearer	Y
Side lanes grow trim and neat	A
The wretched streets are cleaner	Y
That run from William Street	A
The sick streets lonely matron	O
Seems stern as matrons do	Z
Tis William Street redeeming	W
Regenerating Loo	Z

Henry Lawson

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