Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, m — W.H. Auden
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Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.

— W.H. Auden
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