“With the man I love who loves me not
I walked in the street-lamps' flare —
But oh, the girls who can ask for love
In the lights of Union Square.”

—  Sara Teasdale

"Union Square"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

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American writer and poet 1884–1933

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