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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONGS OF NEW YORK: THE PARKS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poet's Biography
First Line: There are green islands in the city sea
Last Line: There are green islands in the city sea.
Subject(s): New York City; Parks; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple
First Line: There are green islands in the city sea
Last Line: There are green islands in the city sea.
Subject(s): New York City; Parks; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple
THERE are green islands in the city sea,
Where all day long, the endless, passionate waves
Beat, yet destroy not; and their quiet saves
How many a heart grown sick with memory!
Not derelicts alone are foundered there,
But children with the laughter of the May --
Bright, living flowers -- in these glad gardens play,
Knowing, yet knowing not, the town's despair!
God made the ocean, where tumultuously
The loud storms burst; and Babylon He made;
Yet all the hills are His, dim valley and glade --
There are green islands in the city sea.
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