City of Orgies

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.

CITY OF ORGIES.

CITY of orgies, walks and joys! City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst
will one day make you illustrious, Not the pageants of you—not your shifting tableaux,
your spectacles, repay me; Not the interminable rows of your houses—nor the
ships at the wharves, Nor the processions in the streets, nor the bright win-
dows, with goods in them; Nor to converse with learn'd persons, or bear my share
in the soiree or feast; Not those—but, as I pass, O Manhattan! your fre-
quent and swift flash of eyes offering me love, Offering response to my own—these repay me; Lovers, continual lovers, only repay me.

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.