London

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1. I wander through each chartered street,
2. Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
3. A mark in every face I meet,
4. Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
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6. In every cry of every man,
7. In every infant’s cry of fear,
8. In every voice, in every ban,
9. The mind-forged manacles I hear:
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11. How the chimney-sweeper’s cry
12. Every blackening church appals,
13. And the hapless soldier’s sigh
14. Runs in blood down palace-walls.
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16. But most, through midnight streets I hear
17. How the youthful harlot’s curse
18. Blasts the new-born infant’s tear,
19. And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.