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IN NEW YORK by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK

First Line: WITHIN THE MODERN WORLD, DEFORMED AND VAST
Last Line: THE MONSTROUS SECRET THAT PROPELS THE STARS.
Subject(s): CALVARY; LIFE, MODERN; NEW YORK CITY; MANHATTAN; NEW YORK, NEW YORK; THE BIG APPLE;
Within the modern world, deformed and vast,
Lurks everlasting, though all men deny,
The awful force that in the ages past
Walked on the waves and cried on Calvary.

I feel it in the crowded city street
'Mid iron walls and wheels and clanging cars,
I feel it in my pulses as they beat,
The monstrous secret that propels the stars.



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