Anna Hempstead Branch - III. Shame on Thee, O Manhattan lyrics

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Anna Hempstead Branch - III. Shame on Thee, O Manhattan lyrics

Shame on thee, O Manhattan, whom I love! And shame on me that I have slept away So many years while thy feet went astray! O Thou--that should'st be white as any dove, Thou Scarlet Woman! Is there no voice to move-- No hand to smite us? Even for this I pray-- Some terrible scourging that we have let the day Darken around us while we saw thee rove. Last night I heard thee cry. Thy wandering feet Went bleeding by me. On thy ruined breast I saw thee nurse a feeding child of flame! Desolate, gorgeous, frantic along the street! Ah, how I blushed in the dark that through my rest I felt the burning garments of thy shame.