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VOL. VIJ No. IV of Verse

NE city only, of all I have lived in, And one house of that city, belong to me - I remember the mellow light of afternoon Slanting arcoss brick buildings on the waterfront, And small boats at rest on the floating tide, And larger boats at rest in the near-by harbor; And I know the tidal smell, and the smell of mud, Uncovering oyster flats, and the brown bare toes of small negroes With the mud oozing between them; And the little figures leaping from log to log, And the white children playing among them— I remember how I played among them. And I remember the recessed windows of the gloomy halls