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SONGS OF NEW YORK: THE VOICES by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE

First Line: I HEARD THE VOICE OF THE CITY
Last Line: FOREVER BLUE IS THE SKY!
Subject(s): NEW YORK CITY; VOICES; MANHATTAN; NEW YORK, NEW YORK; THE BIG APPLE;
I HEARD the voice of the city,
Calling again and again,
And into her arms there hastened
Millions and millions of men.

And I heard the voice of old gardens,
Of quiet woodland ways;
But few there were who would heed them
In the rush of the busy days.

The cities grow old and vanish,
And their people faint and die;
But the gardens are green forever,
Forever blue is the sky!



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