![]() ![]() ![]() I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon, lo! upsprang the aboriginal name! Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient I see that the word of my city is that word up there, Because I see that word nested in nests of water-bays, superb, with tall and wonderful spires, Rich, hemm'd thick all around with sailships and steamships-an island sixteen miles long, solid-founded, Numberless crowded streets-high growths of iron, slender, strong, light, splendidly uprising toward clear skies Tide swift and ample, well-loved by me, toward sundown, The flowing sea-currents, the little islands, larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas, The countless masts, the white shore-steamers, the lighters, the ferry-boats, the black sea-steamers well-model'd 10 The down-town streets, the jobbers' houses of business-the houses of business of the ship-merchants, and money-brokers-the river- streets Immigrants arriving, fifteen or twenty thousand in a week The carts hauling goods-the manly race of drivers of horses-the brown-faced sailors The summer air, the bright sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft The winter snows, the sleigh-bells-the broken ice in the river, passing along, up or down, with the flood tide or ebb-tide The mechanics of the city, the masters, well-form'd, beautiful-faced. ![]()
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