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Who has not waked to list the busy sounds
______ summer’s morning, in the sultry smoke
Of noisy London? ______ the pavement hot
The sooty chimney-boy, with dingy face
______ tattered covering, shrilly bawls his trade,
Rousing the sleepy housemaid. At the door
The milk-pail rattles, and the tinkling ______
Proclaims the dustman’s office; while the street
Is lost ______ clouds impervious. Now begins
The din of hackney-coaches, waggons, carts;
While tinmen’s shops, and noisy trunk-makers,
Knife-grinders, coopers, squeaking cork-cutters,
Fruit-barrows, and the hunger-giving cries
Of vegetable-vendors, fill the air.
Now every shop displays its varied trade,
And the fresh-sprinkled pavement cools the feet
Of early walkers. At the ______ door
The ruddy housemaid twirls the busy mop,
Annoying ______ smart ’prentice, or neat girl,
Tripping with band-box lightly. ______ the sun
Darts burning splendor on the glittering pane,
______ where the canvas awning throws a shade
On the ______ merchandise. Now, spruce and trim,
In shops (where beauty ______ with industry)
Sits the smart damsel; while the passenger
______ through the window, watching every charm.
Now pastry dainties ______ the eye minute
Of humming insects, while the limy ______
Waits to enthrall them. Now the lamp-lighter
Mounts the ______ ladder, nimbly venturous,
To trim the half-filled lamps, while ______ his feet
The pot-boy yells discordant! All along
The ______ pavement, the old-clothes-man cries
In tone monotonous, while sidelong ______
The area for his traffic: now the bag
Is ______ opened, and the half-worn suit
(Sometimes the pilfered treasure ______ the base
Domestic spoiler), for one half its worth,
______ in the green abyss. The porter now
Bears his ______ load along the burning way;
And the poor poet ______ from busy dreams,
To paint the summer morning.