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THE QUIET DAYS
"Good cheap! Good cheap! Buy my golden ware! / Sunny-afternoon-color, happy-harvest-moon-color, / Burnished bright as Beauty's golden hair! / O come buy! / Buy my rare golden ware! " / (But they never came anigh him, they went trooping by him, / To trade at the shop of Despair -- / At the dark little shop of Despair! )
"Good cheap! Good cheap! Buy my magic ware! / All your meat shall savor of it, all your drink take flavor of it, / Yea, 'twill warm ye when the hearth is bare! O come buy! / Buy my fair golden ware! " / (But they hurried past the turning, with their fixed eyes burning, / Making haste to be cheated by Despair -- / Buying dear at the counter of Despair! )