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the winter evining settles down

with smells of steaks in passage ways.

six 0' clock

the burnt-out ends of smoky days,

and now a gusty shower wraps

the grimy scraps

of witherer leaves about your feet

and newspaper from vacant lots;

the shower beat

on broken blinds and chimney-pots,

and at the corner of the street

a lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.

and then the lighting of the lamps.