Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79.
East London
By Matthew Arnold (18221888)’T
Smote on the squalid streets of Bethnal Green,
And the pale weaver, through his windows seen
In Spitalfields, looked thrice dispirited;
“Ill and o’erworked, how fare you in this scene?”
“Bravely!” said he; “for I of late have been
Much cheered with thoughts of Christ, the living bread.”
Set up a mark of everlasting light,
Above the howling senses’ ebb and flow,
Not with lost toil thou laborest through the night!
Thou mak’st the heaven thou hop’st indeed thy home.