Shapes of Clay | Page 2

AN EPITAPH THE POLITICIAN AN
INSCRIPTION FROM VIRGINIA TO PARIS A "MUTE
INGLORIOUS MILTON" THE FREE TRADER'S LAMENT
SUBTERRANEAN PHANTASIES IN MEMORIAM THE
STATESMEN THE BROTHERS THE CYNIC'S BEQUEST
CORRECTED NEWS AN EXPLANATION JUSTICE MR. FINK'S

DEBATING DONKEY TO MY LAUNDRESS FAME OMNES
VANITAS ASPIRATION DEMOCRACY THE NEW "ULALUME"
CONSOLATION FATE PHILOSOPHER BIMM REMINDED
SALVINI IN AMERICA ANOTHER WAY ART AN ENEMY TO
LAW AND ORDER TO ONE ACROSS THE WAY THE DEBTOR
ABROAD FORESIGHT A FAIR DIVISION GENESIS LIBERTY
THE PASSING OF "BOSS" SHEPHERD TO MAUDE THE BIRTH
OF VIRTUE STONEMAN IN HEAVEN THE SCURRIL PRESS
STANLEY ONE OF THE UNFAIR SEX THE LORD'S PRAYER ON
A COIN A LACKING FACTOR THE ROYAL JESTER A CAREER
IN LETTERS THE FOLLOWING PAIR POLITICAL ECONOMY
VANISHED AT COCK-CROW THE UNPARDONABLE SIN
INDUSTRIAL DISCONTENT TEMPORA MUTANTUR
CONTENTMENT THE NEW ENOCH DISAVOWAL AN
AVERAGE WOMAN INCURABLE THE PUN A PARTISAN'S
PROTEST TO NANINE VICE VERSA A BLACK-LIST A
BEQUEST TO MUSIC AUTHORITY THE PSORIAD
ONEIROMANCY PEACE THANKSGIVING L'AUDACE THE
GOD'S VIEW-POINT THE AESTHETES JULY FOURTH WITH
MINE OWN PETARD CONSTANCY SIRES AND SONS A
CHALLENGE TWO SHOWS A POET'S HOPE THE WOMAN AND
THE DEVIL TWO ROGUES BEECHER NOT GUILTY
PRESENTIMENT A STUDY IN GRAY A PARADOX FOR MERIT
A BIT OF SCIENCE THE TABLES TURNED TO A DEJECTED
POET A FOOL THE HUMORIST MONTEFIORE A WARNING
DISCRETION AN EXILE THE DIVISION SUPERINTENDENT
PSYCHOGRAPHS TO A PROFESSIONAL EULOGIST FOR
WOUNDS ELECTION DAY THE MILITIAMAN A LITERARY
METHOD A WELCOME A SERENADE THE WISE AND GOOD
THE LOST COLONEL FOR TAT A DILEMMA
METEMPSYCHOSIS THE SAINT AND THE MONK THE
OPPOSING SEX A WHIPPER-IN JUDGMENT THE FALL OF MISS
LARKIN IN HIGH LIFE A BUBBLE A RENDEZVOUS FRANCINE
AN EXAMPLE REVENGE THE GENESIS OF EMBARRASSMENT
IN CONTUMACIAM RE-EDIFIED A BULLETIN FROM THE
MINUTES WOMAN IN POLITICS TO AN ASPIRANT A BALLAD
OF PIKEVILLE A BUILDER AN AUGURY LUSUS POLITICUS

BEREAVEMENT AN INSCRIPTION A PICKBRAIN
CONVALESCENT THE NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR DETECTED
BIMETALISM THE RICH TESTATOR TWO METHODS
FOUNDATIONS OF THE STATE IN IMPOSTER UNEXPOUNDED
FRANCE THE EASTERN QUESTION A GUEST A FALSE
PROPHECY TWO TYPES SOME ANTE-MORTEM EPITAPHS A
HYMN OF THE MANY ONE MORNING AN ERROR AT THE
"NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT" THE KING OF BORES HISTORY
THE HERMIT TO A CRITIC OF TENNYSON THE YEARLY LIE
CO-OPERATION AN APOLOGUE DIAGNOSIS FALLEN DIES
IRAE THE DAY OF WRATH ONE MOOD'S EXPRESSION
SOMETHING IN THE PAPERS IN THE BINNACLE HUMILITY
ONE PRESIDENT THE BRIDE STRAINED RELATIONS THE
MAN BORN BLIND A NIGHTMARE A WET SEASON THE
CONFEDERATE FLAGS HAEC FARULA DOCET
EXONERATION AZRAEL AGAIN HOMO PODUNKENSIS A
SOCIAL CALL

SHAPES OF CLAY

THE PASSING SHOW.
I.
I know not if it was a dream. I viewed A city where the restless
multitude, Between the eastern and the western deep Had roared
gigantic fabrics, strong and rude.
Colossal palaces crowned every height; Towers from valleys climbed
into the light; O'er dwellings at their feet, great golden domes Hung in
the blue, barbarically bright.
But now, new-glimmering to-east, the day Touched the black masses
with a grace of gray, Dim spires of temples to the nation's God
Studding high spaces of the wide survey.
Well did the roofs their solemn secret keep Of life and death stayed by
the truce of sleep, Yet whispered of an hour-when sleepers wake, The
fool to hope afresh, the wise to weep.
The gardens greened upon the builded hills Above the tethered
thunders of the mills With sleeping wheels unstirred to service yet By
the tamed torrents and the quickened rills.

A hewn acclivity, reprieved a space, Looked on the builder's blocks
about his base And bared his wounded breast in sign to say: "Strike! 't
is my destiny to lodge your race.
"'T was but a breath ago the mammoth browsed Upon my slopes, and
in my caves I housed Your shaggy fathers in their nakedness, While on
their foeman's offal they caroused."
Ships from afar afforested the bay. Within their huge and chambered
bodies lay The wealth of continents; and merrily sailed The hardy
argosies to far Cathay.
Beside the city of the living spread-- Strange fellowship!--the city of
the dead; And much I wondered what its humble folk, To see how
bravely they were housed, had said.
Noting how firm their habitations stood, Broad-based and free of
perishable wood-- How deep in granite and how high in brass The
names were wrought of eminent and good,
I said: "When gold or power is their aim, The smile of beauty or the
wage of shame, Men dwell in cities; to this place they fare When they
would conquer an abiding fame."
From the red East the sun--a solemn rite-- Crowned with a flame the
cross upon a height Above the dead; and then with all his strength
Struck the great city all aroar