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They yelleden as fiendes doon in hell;
The duckes cryden as men would them quell;
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So hideous was the noise, ah! benedicite!
Certes, he Jacke Straw and his meinie
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Nature inanimate employs sweet sounds,
But animated nature sweeter still,
To soothe and satisfy the human ear.
subways, rivered under streets
and rivers . . . in the car
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The phonographs of hades in the brain
Are tunnels that re-wind themselves, and love
A burnt match skating in a urinal--
It sounded as if the streets were running,
And then the streets stood still.
Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum."
If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?
That sound, everywhere about us, of the sea--
the tree among its tresses has always heard it,
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A deep wooden note
when the wind blows ...
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