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At the lower end of Limehouse Causeway / Is a house where girls surrender their bodies / To the pleasures of base-minded and unpolished men, / In return for shillings. / And on the walls about this house / Blossoms at summer the wild white rose.
In a tiny room at the top of a tenement / Lives a white maid of surpassing virtue, / Gentle in manner and quiet and dutiful, / Combing her golden curls each morning / Before a window that looks out to hell; / That looks upon cesspools of mud, and mounds of refuse / and the offal of the shops.