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The North Wind.

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I.     Wind of the North, I know your song         Out on the frozen plain,     But here in the city's streets you seem         Only a cry of pain.     II.     I know the note of your lusty throat         Where the black boughs toss and roar,     But here it is part of the old, old cry         Of the hungry, homeless poor.     III.     I know the song that you sing to God,         Joyous and high and wild,     But here where His creatures herd and die,         'Tis the sob of a little child.

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