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An Illustrated Broadside of “Fleet Street”
a poem by Shane Leslie
Illustrated by David Jones
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FLEET STREET
I never see the newsboys run
Amid the whirling street,
With swift untiring feet,
To cry the latest venture done,
But I expect one day to hear
Them cry the crack of doom
And risings from the tomb,
With great Archangel Michael near;
And see them running from the Fleet
As messengers of God,
With Heaven's tidings shod
About their brave unwearied feet.
- Shane Leslie
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[ The images from Fleet Street are courtesy of a private collector ] |
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[Figure One]
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[Figure Two]
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The images above are from David Jones's "Fleet Street" broadside [1927].
The poem "Fleet Street" is from the free ebook download of the 1910/11
http://www.archive.org/details/eyesofyouth17735gut
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