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"Moving Through the Silent Crowd" by Stephen Spender(1909-1995)
Moving through the silent crowd
Whostand behind dullcigarettes
Those men who,icl in the road.
Opend time dongnernig
Shors that Ohave the sense ofallinglight,
the peater ectcPr
is Offering
sind
hio Guthtic,
SPnc hear4felt
to hisimares0ns ebair
and
Df the lounge atcorners of the street
ürempyed Andgreet friends with aßhrug of Shoulcer
CilIaaHon 1senphaeis on thesien Hay
Andturn their empty pockets out, thc nempuedcemmae,
are bon si lercedond
The cynical gestures of the poor. trnr byscE
arcdem:ofrces areberrer men
Now they've no work, like better men agordng
Who sit at desks and take much pay
hesleep long nights and rise at ten
Towatch the hours that cdrain avay.
CrOnd. jediousOffne
Tmjealbusof the weeping hours starvirgrey iCCL mOnay
They stare through with suchhungry eyes, $ fod
anaphoo mhaurtedby these images,
I'm haunted by their emptiness.
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End: guilt/self- i
tical/inadequae
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