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Sidney Lanier

Oft seems the Time a market-town
     Where many merchant-spirits meet
    Who up and down and up and down
     Cry out along the street

    Their needs, as wares; one THUS, one SO:
     Till all the ways are full of sound:
   —But still come rain, and sun, and snow,
     And still the world goes round.

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