Poems made on a city walk, attempting to fix centering

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     it's what thy were\\
     and thy shall be.
 \end{Verse}
+
+\chapter{Dust}
+\begin{Verse}
+    Writings on a wall\\
+    a tree and its\\
+    snow\\
+    What acheivement do you keep\\
+    in your mind and in your soul?\\
+    Many speakers of all minds\
+    fly and dance will\\
+    tonight\\
+    While the dust settles\\
+    inside.
+\end{Verse}
+
+\chapter{Buyeth}
+\begin{Verse}
+   To everybody's contempt\\
+   today is the event\\
+   The day when you must pay\\
+   for the uncherished bliss\\
+   we all have been denying\\
+   before it was taken by\\
+   fire.
+\end{Verse}
+
+\chapter{Gates}
+\begin{Verse}
+   Bad,unjust\\
+   war and lust\\
+   we shall decide\\
+   what you be must\\
+   Dancing as a dancer\\
+   Sleeping as a sleepr\\
+   Heat,\\
+   speeding cars,\\
+   metal and wooden planks\\
+   Your nature shall not stand\\
+   where we not demand.
+\end{Verse}
+
+\chapter{Sweat}
+\begin{Verse}
+    Brick and bells\\
+    On which an old man leans\\
+    Not tired by age,\\
+    but by life's appeal\\
+    For who lives in a dream is sleeping\\
+    and thus he's keeeping\\
+    his life of sweat.
+\end{Verse}
+\end{vplace}
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