His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
Eliot, T.S. "Preludes." The Complete Poems and Plays 1909-1950. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1980, 13.
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