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I wander through each chartered street, |
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Near where the chartered Thames does flow, |
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And mark in every face I meet, |
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Marks of weakness, marks of woe. |
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In every cry of every man, |
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In every infant's cry of fear, |
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In every voice, in every ban, |
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The mind-forged manacles I hear: |
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How the chimney-sweeper's cry |
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Every blackening church appals, |
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And the hapless soldier's sigh |
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Runs in blood down palace-walls. |
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But most, through midnight streets I hear |
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How the youthful harlot's curse |
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Blasts the new-born infant's tear, |
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And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse |