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If you walk on Main Street, / Turn your fancy loose, / Out of lace and lacquer / You may pick and choose; / Poetry of race and clan, / Demure maid and solemn man, / All the lore is stored away / In these houses brick and grey. / Puritan and worldly wise / Trod these stones that meet your eyes; / Hoary old aristocrats, / Old chairs, parrots, lace and cats; / Old umbrellas, ivory canes, / Whale and ship for weather vanes; / Soldiers' Monument and bank, / Shops and studios in rank; / New sails spread or old sails furled.... / Main Street's where you meet the World!
If you turn in Salem Street, / Better have a care; / The Law is on your left / And the red jail is there. / They don't burn witches / But you'd better beware!