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I know many beautiful things about men and women

But I do not know any thing more beautiful than to be freehanded
and always go on the square.—

I see the saw see an aristocrat;

I see saw see a a smoucher and a hog, grabbing the
good dishes _^exclusively to himself,. and grinning
at the starvation of others, as if
it were funny.—

I see yet gaze on hear the greedy hog,; as — he roots and snorts _^as he roots anin the costly delicate
green house.—

How those niggers smell!

Must that hod‑boy ride in occupy the same stage with me?

Doth the dirt doze and forget itself?

And let tomatos ripen for busters and prostitutes street night walkers—

And do no better for me—

Who am a regular gentlemen or lady,

With a marble broad stoop to my house residence , and a silver door plate, and a
steady pew in church?

And I is the day here when I vote at the polls,

One with the immigrant that last August
strewed lime in my gutter?

One with Sambo the thick‑lipped slave, black? or the son of a slave? the black?

And can dew wet the air, the night [illegible] after such
may be elected to Congress,

And make laws over me?—

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