Calamus 18
Part of the cluster CALAMUS.
18.
CITY of my walks and joys! City whom that I have lived and sung there will oneday make you illustrious, Not the pageants of you—not your shifting tab-
leaux, 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 learned 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 me the response of my own—these repay
me, Lovers, continual lovers, only repay me.
Part of the cluster CALAMUS.