Lays of Chinatown (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Lays of Chinatown Oh, sweet Cathayan airs released To waft the odors of the East, While sheening silks and jeweled shoes The Orient's further charms transfuse, Of such my radiant childhood dreamed - With such my expectation teemed - So fair, I read, was Chinatown. Golden legends of a place, Tinkle, silvery bells! Full of romance, full of grace, So the sybil tells. From sullen skies a cheerless rain That floods the half-choked gutter drain, And houses that for years have stood Ramshackle dens of brick and wood, Worn doors, uncurtained window-panes, And mucky streets and garbage lanes - And this is - this - is Chinatown! Pattering feet of Chinamen, Holima, Ching-la, Ribald girls of Chinatown, Joss! how foul they are. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.