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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OUR CITY, by FLOSSIE FAITH SAWINGS
First Line: I looked upon our city and her people
Last Line: Despair grow deeper on our city's face.
Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life
First Line: I looked upon our city and her people
Last Line: Despair grow deeper on our city's face.
Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life
I looked upon our city and her people
From one brave hill that leaned above a spire:
I saw the churches bidding men look higher
Than any gleaming cross or bell-hung steeple.
I saw the graveyard near the city's gate;
I saw the factories where men's lives are ground
Within a mill that, grinding, makes no sound
Save only weeping where the low mounds wait.
Then screaming whistles pierced the calm apart,
While smoke-herds tramped the sky like maddened steers;
I saw the people streaming down like tears,
Each with a lost hope beating in his heart,
And wondered if God marked from His high place
Despair grow deeper on our city's face.
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