Manhattan
“Wonderful!” This ejaculation comes
Not from a stranger, but from one whose nurse
Led him in fields where now the city hums—
The capital city of the universe.
For strangers are New Yorkers in three days,
But the New Yorker is an alien still
At fourscore years and ten among the ways
Familiar to his sight—his own door-sill
Marked by the eye of commerce, whose swift gnomes
Already fashion a fantastic change.
Oh, homeless city of most sumptuous homes!—
If the old Knickerbockers' spirits range
Manhattan, they have viewed queer things I ween
Since their tiled gables circled Bowling Green.
Not from a stranger, but from one whose nurse
Led him in fields where now the city hums—
The capital city of the universe.
For strangers are New Yorkers in three days,
But the New Yorker is an alien still
At fourscore years and ten among the ways
Familiar to his sight—his own door-sill
Marked by the eye of commerce, whose swift gnomes
Already fashion a fantastic change.
Oh, homeless city of most sumptuous homes!—
If the old Knickerbockers' spirits range
Manhattan, they have viewed queer things I ween
Since their tiled gables circled Bowling Green.
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