City of my walks and joys
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Calamus 18. p 363
City of my walks and joys!
City whom that I have lived
and sung there will one day
make you illustrious! Not the infinite pageants of
you—Not your shifting
tableaux, your spectacles,
repay me Not the interminable rows of
your houses—notr
the
ships at the wharves, Manhattan!little you h
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You
[illegible] city: what
do y[cut away]
you repay me for my
daily walks joys
Not
these
your
crowded rows of houses silen
attract
repay
me
[illegible] Not the bright windows
and
or
the goods in them, or the
processions in the streetI
^Notr to
converse with
educated and
eminent
learned
fashionable
^learned
persons, or bear
my share in the soiree , or
feast, ordiscu in politics,
But as I pass, the ^frequent
and swift flash
of eyes,speaking
offering
offering
me
delicious
[illegible] athletic
love fresh as nature's air and
herbage——offering me
full repa the ^respondsse and equal of
my my own,
These repay me—Lovers, ^continual Lovers
continu only repay me.—
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Calamus 18. p 363
City of my walks and joys!
City whom that I have lived
and sung there will one day
make you illustrious! Not the infinite pageants of
you—Not your shifting
tableaux, your spectacles,
repay me Not the interminable rows of
your houses—no
ships at the wharves, Manhattan!
processions in the street
my share in the soiree , or
feast, or
of eyes,
