<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343161" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballade of a Special Edition</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He comes; I hear him up the street--<br>Bird of ill omen, flapping wide<br>The pinion of a printed sheet,<br>His hoarse note scares the eventide.<br>Of slaughter, theft, and suicide<br>He is the herald and the friend;<br>Now he vociferates with pride--<br>A double murder in Mile End!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A hanging to his soul is sweet;<br>His gloating fancy's fain to bide<br>Where human-freighted vessels meet,<br>And misdirected trains collide.<br>With Shocking Accidents supplied,<br>He tramps the town from end to end.<br>How often have we heard it cried--<br>A double murder in Mile End.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">War loves he; victory or defeat,<br>So there be loss on either side.<br>His tale of horrors incomplete,<br>Imagination's aid is tried.<br>Since no distinguished man has died,<br>And since the Fates, relenting, send<br>No great catastrophe, he's spied<br>This double murder in Mile End.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fiend, get thee gone! no more repeat<br>Those sounds which do mine ears offend.<br>It is apocryphal, you cheat,<br>Your double murder in Mile End.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Amy+Levy">Amy Levy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343161" data-title="Ballade of a Special Edition de Amy Levy" data-description="He comes; I hear him up the street-- Bird of ill omen, flapping wide The pinion of a printed sheet, His hoarse note scares the eventide. Of slaughter, theft, and suicide He is the herald and the friend; Now he vociferates with pride-- A double mur..."></div> </div> </div>

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