With a dead heart whose restless pallor

Crept to squalid wantonness, for refuge.

And now she stands within this doorway,

Uttering muffled innuendoes

To the drained men of her race.

Yet, something of a village hangs about her:

Something slumbering and ample

Stealing from the earth curves of her shoulders.

III

The steel-mill workers straggle down this street,