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NEW YORK by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

Poem Explanation

First Line: WITH THESE HEAVEN-ASSAILING SPIRES

WITH these heaven-assailing spires
All that was in clay or stone
Fabled of rich Babylon
By these children is outdone


Earth has spilt her fire in these
To make them of her mightier kind.
Has she that precious fire to give,
The starry-pointing Magian mind,


That soared from the Chaldean plains
Through zones of mystic air, and found
The Master of the Zodiac,
The Will that makes the Wheel go round.




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