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I REACH the marble-streeted town, / Whose "Sound" outbreathes its air / Of sharp sea-salts; / I see the movement up and down / As when she was there. / Ships of all countries come and go, / The bandsmen boom in the sun / A throbbing waltz; / The schoolgirls laugh along the Hoe / As when she was one.
I move away as the music rolls: / The place seems not to mind / That she-of old / The brightest of its native souls- / Left it behind! / Over this green aforedays she / On light treads went and came, / Yea, times untold; / Yet none here knows her history- / Has heard her name.