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_Two roadways lead from this land to That_, _and one is the road of / Prayer_; / _And one is the road of Old-time Songs_, _and every note is a stair_.
A shabby old man with a music machine on the sordid city street; / But suddenly earth seemed Arcady, and life grew young and sweet. / For the city street fled, and the world was green, and a little house / stood by the sea; / And she came singing a martial air (she who was peace itself); / She brought back with her the old, strange charm, of mingled pathos / and glee-