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I Wandered Through Each Chartered Street.

" I wandered through each chartered filth, filled, street        
to eye things the poor are suffered to own;        
rags, disease, high-rent slums, death, as a treat...        
and in my impotence I can only groan.        
        
The doorway sleepers, the ragged children,        
just gallows fodder because they be poor,        
boys and girls, hard labourers at age ten        
no help, the rich bought out Jesus's roar..."    
        
And today, (I am sick of all their Cant)        
tents in streets of that, richest land of all,        
on T.V. - Pals, of rich lawmakers rant        
Keep the poor out! Pay Us To Build Your Wall!    
        
The poor are behind walls now, they can't climb,        
Those grifter's above, just don't give, a dime...
Written by Rew
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Author's Note
The title is a quote from William Blake.


" London " By William Blake

I wander thro' each charter'd street,
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow.
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear

How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every blackning Church appalls,
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls

But most thro' midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

" Chartered ' means, decided, mapped out.
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