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New York and Other Verses (Classic Reprint)
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My Own City
I Have drunk it in,
as a cup of clear water set upon a house-top
drinks up the sky
and the wheeling of the moon,
and the sparkling constellations.
Its great grey jagged and smoking shell,
like a cage dropped over the white fire of its heart,
lives again in rippling cobwebs of ghostly gold
among the hanging shadows of the river.
But, in the creeks and inlets of my mind,
it has made itself another life
that the blue-rimmed glare of the hurrying day
cannot burn away,
nor the midnight's massive hand
brush over the precipice of darkness.
The mighty lacework of its bridges,
its cliff-faced buildings,
the stunning thunder of its streets,
and the unheeding flashing cataract of its devouring life
are the thoughtless loom upon which I have made my thoughts.
And when I die,
images on images of the grandiloquent city
will live on their own life in my grave with me,
like a pattern of embers
buried in sleeping seas of sand,
like a little handful of twinkling garnets
hid in the heart of an ancient hill.
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