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First Line: The city's mad: through her prodigious veins
Last Line: They ask to take the veil, and be a nun!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE city's mad: through her prodigious veins
What errant, strange, eccentric humors thrill:
Day, when her cataracts of sunlight spill --
Night, golden-panelled with her window panes;
The toss of wind-blown skirts; and who can drill
Forever his fierce heart with checking reins?
Cruel and mad, my statisticians say --
Ah, but she raves in such a gallant way!

Brave madness, built for beauty and the sun --
In such a town who can be sane? Not I.
Of clashing colors all her moods are spun --
A scarlet anger and a golden cry.
This frantic town where madcap mischiefs run
They ask to take the veil, and be a nun!





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