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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPRING IN THE SUBWAY, by ELSA GILL
First Line: In these dim corridors of shattering sound
Last Line: Of cotton buttercups upon her hat.
Subject(s): New York City; Spring; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple
First Line: In these dim corridors of shattering sound
Last Line: Of cotton buttercups upon her hat.
Subject(s): New York City; Spring; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple
In these dim corridors of shattering sound
Where there is neither real night nor day,
and naught to tell if skies be clear or gray
In the fair other-world above the ground,
Except where, here and there, the sun has found
An opening to push in a pallid ray
Where glimmering silver showers of dust motes play;
What is there here to say that hills are crowned
With dewy splendor, and that fields are sweet
With April's store of blossoming delight?
And yet I knew 'twas so the moment that
A blue-eyed girl came tripping from the street
Bearing into the gloom a garland bright
Of cotton buttercups upon her hat.
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