Skyscrapers

"I have known only my own shallows -     Safe, plumbed places,     Where I was wont to preen myself.     But for the abyss     I wanted a pla"

"I love those spirits     That men stand off and point at,     Or shudder and hood up their souls -     Those ruined ones,     Where Liberty h"

"I thought to die that night in the solitude where they would never find me...     But there was time...     And I lay quietly on the drawn knees"

"I     The foreman's head     slowly circling...     White rims     under yellow disks of eyes....     Gold hairs     starting out of a blon"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"