A Scene in London
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1886

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Editor : Charlotte Wilson

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close, cloud, years, old, crouching, fire, london, shillings, knotted, mute.

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Photo by 303db,CC BY-NC-ND License BOTH of them deaf and close on eighty years old --     She stone-blind, and he nearly so--      Side by side crouching over the fire in a little London hovel--seven  shillings a week--     Their joints knotted with rheumatism--their faces all day long mute  like statues of all passing expression--(no cloud flying by, no gleam of  sunshine there)--lips closed and silent : 

   But for that now and then taking his pipe out of his mouth,      He puts his face close to her ear and yells just a word into it,       And she nods her blind head and gives a raucous screech in answer. 

Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Socialism
Vol. 1 -- No. 3,
DECEMBER, 1886 
Source: http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/journals/freedom/freedom1_3.html


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     A Scene in London -- Publication : December 01, 1886

     A Scene in London -- Added : April 23, 2018

     A Scene in London -- Updated : January 03, 2022

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