Quotation by John Greenleaf Whittier

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Through this broad street, restless ever,
Ebbs and flows a human tide,
Wave on wave a living river;
Wealth and fashion side by side;
Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), U.S. poet. At Washington, st. 2.

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