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London Types Sandwich-Man

An ill March noon; the flagstones gray with dust;

An all-round east wind volleying straws and grit;

St.

Martin's Steps, where every venomous gust Lingers to buffet, or sneap, the passing cit;

And in the gutter, squelching a rotten boot,

Draped in a wrap that, modish ten-year syne,

Partners, obscene with sweat and grease and soot,

A horrible hat, that once was just as fine;

The drunkard's mouth a-wash for something drinkable,

The drunkard's eye alert for causal toppers,

The drunkard's neck stooped to a lot scarce thinkable,

A living crawling blazoning of Hot-Coppers,

He trails his mildews towards a Kingdom-Come Compact of sausage-and-mash and two-o'rum!

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William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley (23 August 1849 – 11 July 1903) was an English poet, writer, critic and editor in late Victorian England. Though he wrote …

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