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At the corner of the Causeway on every seventh evening / Gathers the band of Salvation Army, / Making big noise of Washed-in-Blood-of-Lamb.
At temple in East India Dock Road / Men gather in white clothes, and sing, / And march with candles and pray to Lady.
At shop in Pennyfields, many times a day, / This person pays respect to Big Man Joss, / And burns to him prayer-papers and punk-sticks.
And all day long men toil for wife and child; / Wife suffer and stint to make bigger plate for child; / Child beg in street to get food for sick mother; / Sister wear ragged clothes for sake of little brother. / And none of these has bowed to Joss, / Or marched with candle, / Or washed in blood of Lamb.