If, in an odd angle of the hutment,
A puppy laps the water from a can
Of flowers, and the drunk sergeant shaving
Whistles O Paradiso!--shall I say that man
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The last two lines make me cringe and shiver and feel the force of his heavy gray soul and its outlook on the life he's seen