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Amy Levy - Straw in the Street
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Straw in the street where I pass to-day
Dulls the sound of the wheels and feet.
`Tis for a failing life they lay
    Straw in the street.

Here, where the pulses of London beat,
Someone strives with the Presence grey;
Ah, is it victory or defeat?

The hurrying people go their way,
Pause and jostle and pass and greet;
For life, for death, are they treading, say
    Straw in the street?
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