The San Francisco call., 1904-08-14
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the creakng stairs experiencing the sensations OF burglar
profession unboed the great door OF the hotel and
passed into unknown silent city, bathed IN mysterious
light Since then this strange city of the dawn has
ceased call 1t be in London in Paris again. in
Brussels, Berlin, Vienna that have gone sleep but
chance wake before the returning tide Of human life has dimmed
It's goes with the nsS and OF the noisy day know that
beyond my window blind the fairy city saw it first
which evil thing This city of quiet ysas fading into
tho dawn that still is ounginv IS me TO talk with it awhile be-
fore the waking before Them and with sigh it
OF dignity The very ragpcker groping with her hy hand IN
stead of object contempt from door to door accus-
9 nirstic % sle beid is deaf shuteTs Vet even into
her dim brain peace that fills fohs brief hour the
city This shall have its end, my sste Men and women
rich mans door Courage little longer YOU and YOURS Your
heuy eyes bright your thin locks soft and
your poor straight Maybe they tell you
their gded churches this buging sack shall be lifted from your
weary shoulders your ssapen limbs straight again Be
ali pass uneeded through these empty
Not all eyes the sleeping The little
hurryng her early work. little later she will be of
foolish crowd joining in the foolish laughter in the ess Of
the wooom yet the hot day has claimed her The
orkroom beyond the OF and sordd
gle lar behind her also III this moment are the sweet thoughts
OF wOmanhOod She puts down her bag herself seat
II al me Gay were dawn hIs ci OF the morning always WIN US
neghbOrng clock chimes forth the hour She starts from
her dream and hue on to the noisy woroom with its coarse
others hands They Will return this same later IN the day.
but there will be another expression in their another meaning
with them Some tat midde-aged clerk comes putting into view
his ridiculous little figure very podgy. He stops take off his hat
morning feshy changes
looks him. One again the lad with his vague hopes his
absurd ambitions
There of Aphrode of the smaller Paris
parks Twice in the week without particularly meaning
gazing stessy, does when in dreamy mood both
occasions, turning 60 encountered the gazing
ing manpossby he thought
might have been etodo tradesnnan minor Government Off
c lawyer Quite years paid my
to the statue about the hour This time he
Placing his hands the Of the PEDESTAL which may have
been some seven feet in height he drew himself I'D till his lips
very gently reverentia1ly the
foot OF the statue begmed though with the c dirt Had
longhaed student of the Latin Quarter one would
not have been asonsd But he such very commonplace
quite respectableookng Arward he drew pipe from
pocket carefully filled and lighted took his umbrella from the
where it had been lying and walked away Had been their
meegpace long ago? Had he tell her. gazing
sculptor has consider Mrs Grundy lady,
ing her eyes had been confused perhaps for
little milner gOverness
elne file Of good family does not her
What had happened? Or but vagrant fancy
mddeaged bourgeois seeking in imagination the that
reality rarely weaving his lovdream round this change
less In of bsens bitter the lovers agree
flesh again Into the future each will bear image of the
other gode radiant with the glory of youth each
VIII cheh the memory OF loved one VINO shall be beautiful al
That their parting appear wild
first strikes bsen shows the lovers married in the
usual orthodox fashion She all mistress should be- They
speak OF they knew her fifteen years ago. when every
ideals with enthusiasm the hunanities They enter What
did you expec Fifteen years have passed away; fifteen
of Struggle with the grim realities He fat growing bald
Eleven children have be provided will not even
the bootmaer To exist have fight for
weapons And the sweet girl heroine the worried mother
eleven brats One rings the curtain amid laughter That
why for reason love this mystic morning
light 1t has strange revealing the beauty
by the beams of the full day. men and
grown so foolish looking, unromanc-these
and pretty clerks poddng to their monoonous days work.
duleyed women OF the people their market hagge
and contend paltry food In
this magic morning light the Disgusting body transparent
They have grown beautiful ugly with the years of toll and
hardship these lives lived patiently
all SUCH life for them they labor ceasessy
paningy 1t is for the children.
It the attraction that church possessed
for the marketing classes. Christ Temple
but still every Continental city they walls