He hung out of the window a long while looking up and down the street. The world's second metropolis. In the brick houses and the ...dingy lamplight and the voices of a group of boys kidding and quarreling on the steps of a house opposite, in the regular firm tread of a policeman, he felt a marching like soldiers, like a sidewheeler going up the Hudson under the Palisades, like an election parade, through long streets towards something tall white full of colonnades and stately. Metropolis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a great buck it powerfully appeared, Pushing the crumpled water up ahead,... And landed pouring like a waterfall, And stumbled through the rocks with horny tread, And forced the underbrush--and that was all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fountains and ye, that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.... Join voices all ye living souls, ye birds, That singing up to heaven gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise; Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep; Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill, or valley, fountain, or fresh shade Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Old man, it's four flights up and for what? Your room is hardly any bigger than your bed.... Puffing as you climb, you are a brown woodcut stooped over the thin rail and the wornout tread.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rosenbloom is dead. The tread of the carriers does not halt... On the hill, but turns Up the sky. They are bearing his body into the sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men,... And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while,... So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, And smile, smile, smile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »