Maisonettes
The houses in Windermere Street are let off in floors,
Which perhaps is the reason it always seems so to “swarm.”
Little groups of girls and young men gather round its front doors
And keen eyes at all windows observe who is “coming to harm.”
Every one in the street knew at once about poor Lizzie Brown!
They saw the young chap she took up with, and “knew how 'twould be”;
And they know why the blinds of the house at the corner are down,
And who pays the second floor's rent, at a hundred and three.
Which perhaps is the reason it always seems so to “swarm.”
Little groups of girls and young men gather round its front doors
And keen eyes at all windows observe who is “coming to harm.”
Every one in the street knew at once about poor Lizzie Brown!
They saw the young chap she took up with, and “knew how 'twould be”;
And they know why the blinds of the house at the corner are down,
And who pays the second floor's rent, at a hundred and three.
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