’Neath the curse of a laundried shirt!

I tire to death of the town’s close breath—

Of the pave, and the lighted street:

Its silken tiles, and its threadbare smiles—

Of the patter of kid-shod feet;

And thoughts tramp back where I lost the track

Of a “leader” of five-ounce dirt,

Before I knelt with a “Scheme”-cleansed pelt

At the shrine of a laundried shirt!

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I came down here for a spell, last year,