Caroling Dusk/South Street
SOUTH STREET
(Philadelphia, Pa.)
South Street is not beautiful,But the songs of people thereHold the beauty of the jungle,And the fervidness of prayer.
South Street has no mansions,But the hands of South Street menBuilt pyramids along the NileThat Time has failed to rend.
South Street is America,Breast of the foster motherWhere a thousand ill-kept childrenVie for suck, with one another.