Thursday, June 27, 2013


What Think You I Take My Pen In Hand?
 
What think you I take my pen in hand to record?
The battleship, perfect-model’d, majestic, that I saw pass the offing today under full sail?
The splendors of the past day? or the splendor of the night that envelops me?
Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me? –no;
But merely of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd,
Parting the parting of dear friends,
The one to remain hung on the neck of the other’s neck and passionately kiss’d him,
While the one to depart tightly prest the one to remain in his arms.

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