Whittier

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    Ah! that thou couldst know thy joy,
    Ere it passes, barefoot boy!
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    Through this broad street, restless ever,
    Ebbs and flows a human tide,
    Wave on wave a living river;
    Wealth and fashion side by side;
    Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    Of all the rides since the birth of time,
    Told in story or sung in rhyme,—
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)