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A wondrous city that had temples there	A
More rich than that one built by David's son	B
Which called forth Ophir's gold when Israel	C
Made Lebanon half naked for her sake	D
I saw white towers where so called traitors died	E
True men whose tongues were bells to honest hearts	F
And rang out boldly in false monarch's ears	G
Saw old black gateways on whose arches crouched	H
Stone lions with their bodies gnawed by age	I
I looked with awe on iron gates that could	J
Tell bloody stones if they had our tongues	K
I saw tall mounted spires shine in the sun	B
That stood amidst their army of low streets	L
I saw in buildings pictures statues rare	A
Made in those days when Rome was young and new	M
In marble quarried from Carrara's hills	N
Statues by sculptors that could almost make	D
Fine cobwebs out of stone so light they worked	O
Pictures that breathe in us a living soul	P
Such as we seldom feel come from that life	Q
The artist copies Many a lovely sight	R
Such as the half sunk barge with bales of hay	S
Or sparkling coals employed my wondering eyes	T
I saw old Thames whose ripples swarmed with stars	U
Bred by the sun on that fine summer's day	S
I saw in fancy fowl and green banks there	A
And Liza's barge rowed past a thousand swans	V
I walked in parks and heard sweet music cry	W
In solemn courtyards midst the men at arms	X
Which suddenly would leap those stony walls	Y
And spring up with loud laughter into trees	Z
I walked in busy streets where music oft	A2
Went on the march with men and ofttimes heard	B2
The organ in cathedral when the boys	C2
Like nightingales sang in that thunderstorm	D2
The organ with its rich and solemn tones	E2
As near a God's voice as a man conceives	E2
Nor ever dreamt the silent misery	F2
That solemn organ brought to homeless men	G2
I heard the drums and soft brass instruments	E2
Led by the silver cornets clear and high	W
Whose sounds turned playing children into stones	E2
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I saw at night the City's lights shine bright	R
A greater milky way how in its spell	H2
It fascinated with ten thousand eyes	E2
Like those sweet wiles of an enchantress who	M
Would still detain her knight gone cold in love	I2
It was an iceberg with long arms unseen	J2
That felt the deep for vessels far away	S
All things seemed strange I stared like any child	K2
That pores on some old face and sees a world	L2
Which its familiar granddad and his dame	M2
Hid with their love and laughter until then	G2
My feet had not yet felt the cruel rocks	E2
Beneath the pleasant moss I seemed to tread	N2
But soon my ears grew weary of that din	O2
My eyes grew tired of all that flesh and stone	P2
And as a snail that crawls on a smooth stalk	Q2
Will reach the end and find a sharpened thorn	R2
So did I reach the cruel end at last	S2
I saw the starving mother and her child	K2
Who feared that Death would surely end its sleep	T2
And cursed the wolf of Hunger with her moans	E2
And yet methought when first I entered there	A
Into that city with my wondering mind	U2
How marvellous its many sights and sounds	E2
The traffic with its sound of heavy seas	E2
That have and would again unseat the rocks	E2
How common then seemed Nature's hills and fields	E2
Compared with these high domes and even streets	E2
And churches with white towers and bodies black	V2
The traffic's sound was music to my ears	E2
A sound of where the white waves hour by hour	W2
Attack a reef of coral rising yet	X2
Or where a mighty warship in a fog	Y2
Steams into a large fleet of little boats	E2
Aye and that fog was strange and wonderful	C
That made men blind and grope their way at noon	Z2
I saw that City with fierce human surge	A3
With millions of dark waves that still spread out	B3
To swallow more of their green boundaries	E2
Then came a day that noise so stirred my soul	P
I called them hellish sounds and thought red war	C3
Was better far than peace in such a town	D3
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To hear that din all day sometimes my mind	U2
Went crazed and it seemed strange as I were lost	E3
In some vast forest full of chattering apes	E2
How sick I grew to hear that lasting noise	E2
And all those people forced across my sight	R
Knowing the acres of green fields and woods	E2
That in some country parts outnumbered men	G2
In half an hour ten thousand men I passed	S2
More than nine thousand should have been green trees	E2
There on a summer's day I saw such crowds	E2
That where there was no man man's shadow was	E2
Millions all cramped together in one hive	F3
Storing methought more bitter stuff than sweet	G3
The air was foul and stale from their green homes	E2
Young blood had brought its fresh and rosy cheeks	E2
Which soon turned colour like blue streams in flood	H3
Aye solitude black solitude indeed	I3
To meet a million souls and know not one	B
This world must soon grow stale to one compelled	J3
To look all day at faces strange and cold	K3
Oft full of smoke that town its summer's day	S
Was darker than a summer's night at sea	F2
Poison was there and still men rushed for it	L3
Like cows for acorns that have made them sick	M3
That town was rich and old man's flesh was cheap	T2
But common earth was dear to buy one foot	N3
If I must be fenced in then let my fence	E2
Be some green hedgerow under its green sprays	E2
That shake suspended let me walk in joy	O3
As I do now in these dear months I love	I2

William Henry Davies

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