Excerpt from Lays of Chinatown
Oh, sweet Cathayan airs released
To waft the odors of the East,
While sheening silks and jeweled shoes
The Orient's further charms transfuse,
Of such my radiant childhood dreamed -
With such my expectation teemed -
So fair, I read, was Chinatown.
Golden legends of a place,
Tinkle, silvery bells!
Full of romance, full of grace,
So the sybil tells.
From sullen skies a cheerless rain
That floods the half-chok...
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