Language: English 
The morning comes to consciousness
Of faint stale smells of beer
From the sawdust-trampled street
With all its muddy feet that press
To early coffee-stands.

With the other masquerades
That time resumes,
One thinks of all the hands
That are raising dingy shades
In a thousand furnished rooms.
First published in Blast, July 1915

Composition:

    Set to music by Stanley Grill (b. 1953), "Prelude II", copyright © 1978 [ soprano, violin and cello ], from Preludes, no. 2, confirmed with an online score

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This text was added to the website: 2009-04-24
Line count: 10
Word count: 48