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I went forth to sing the city - William Rose Benét "The City"

The roaring mill where gods grind without pity - William Rose Benét "The City"

Granite and steel upflung became my fountains - William Rose Benét "The City"

Cunningly reared and held as by a spell - William Rose Benét "The City"

Lost in colossal stone, my newer mountains - William Rose Benét "The City"

I wandered witlessly through miracle - William Rose Benét "The City"

Snared in tiny toils both frail and idle - William Rose Benét "The City"

I lost my wonders as I had lost my stars - William Rose Benét "The City"

A terrible symphony rolled through crashing bars - William Rose Benét "The City"

Small and obvious life fogged every wonder - William Rose Benét "The City"

Beyond Babylon its ways were regal - William Rose Benét "The City"

Jerusalem its dreams outsoared - William Rose Benét "The City"

Loins of the lion and splendor of the eagle - William Rose Benét "The City"

Where swarming vermin hailed it god and lord - William Rose Benét "The City"

Dream phantasm it spread aloft at night - William Rose Benét "The City"

Save in its moments of bewildering light - William Rose Benét "The City"

Had thought and raised and poised its splendor - William Rose Benét "The City"

Fed the torrents of its living veins - William Rose Benét "The City"

As on the instant ready to emerge - William Rose Benét "The City"

Forever trembling just past the reach of mind - William Rose Benét "The City"

Sum of all jaded aims and drab dissembling - William Rose Benét "The City"

Until her darkest streets ran weltering fire - William Rose Benét "The City"

Slaking the heart's immortal thirst - William Rose Benét "Imagination"

Every illustrious hue of the earliest sunset's tapestry - William Rose Benét "Imagination"

All planet years in yours mind's embrace - William Rose Benét "Imagination"

The sadness and sweetness of far evening bells - William Rose Benet "Lights Through the Mist"

A dream hard for the heart to resist - William Rose Benet "Lights Through the Mist"

The pain of the close-drawing darkness - William Rose Benet "Lights Through the Mist"

A treeful of angels at Peckham Rye - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

Could lay hold on the tiger's terrible heart - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

Blake knew how deep is Hell, and Heaven how high - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

Could build the universe from one tiny part - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

Blake heard the asides of God - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

Sifts the star-streams between the Then and the Now - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

In vast infant sagacity brooding - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

Space's Pandora-box loosed its wonders upon him - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

No key of mine unlocks one lock of one gate - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

I hold my breath, daylong, yearlong - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

Out of comfort and easy dreaming - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

Yearning beyond all sanity for some echo of that Song - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

That was sung to the soul of the madman, Blake - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

In broad, eternal noon - William Rose Benet "The Marvelous Munchausen"

In sandy clouds of flame - William Rose Benet "The Marvelous Munchausen"

Bright tears may Envy shed - William Rose Benet "The Marvelous Munchausen"

No edifice of fable - William Rose Benet "The Marvelous Munchausen"

Where skies are free from stain - William Rose Benét "The Tamer of Steeds"

Where brilliant flowers blow in open meads - William Rose Benét "The Tamer of Steeds"

In the heavenly wilds of all the passions - William Rose Benét "The Tamer of Steeds"


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