HOUSE.
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3.
"For a ticket, apply to the Publisher."
No: thanking the public, I must decline.
A peep through my window, if folk prefer;
But, please you, no foot over threshold of mine!
"For a ticket, apply to the Publisher."
No: thanking the public, I must decline.
A peep through my window, if folk prefer;
But, please you, no foot over threshold of mine!
4.
I have mixed with a crowd and heard free talk
In a foreign land where an earthquake chanced
And a house stood gaping, nought to baulk
Man's eye wherever he gazed or glanced.
I have mixed with a crowd and heard free talk
In a foreign land where an earthquake chanced
And a house stood gaping, nought to baulk
Man's eye wherever he gazed or glanced.
5.
The whole of the frontage shaven sheer,
The inside gaped: exposed to day,
Right and wrong and common and queer,
Bare, as the palm of your hand, it lay.
The whole of the frontage shaven sheer,
The inside gaped: exposed to day,
Right and wrong and common and queer,
Bare, as the palm of your hand, it lay.
