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VOL. VIJ No. IV of Verse
JANUARY, 1916
POEMS
ONE CITY ONLY
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ONE city only, of all I have lived in,
And one house of that city, belong to me -
I remember the mellow light of afternoon
Slanting arcoss brick buildings on the waterfront,
And small boats at rest on the floating tide,
And larger boats at rest in the near-by harbor;
And I know the tidal smell, and the smell of mud,
Uncovering oyster flats, and the brown bare toes of small negroes
With the mud oozing between them;
And the little figures leaping from log to log,
And the white children playing among them—
I remember how I played among them.
And I remember the recessed windows of the gloomy halls
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