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1849–1903

XII

William Ernest Henley

To me at my fifth-floor window The chimney-pots in rows Are sets of pipes pandean For every wind that blows;

And the smoke that whirls and eddies In a thousand times and keys Is really a visible music Set to my reveries.

O monstrous pipes, melodious With fitful tune and dream, The clouds are your only audience, Her thought is your only theme!

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