keys of the city
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Keys of the CityAuthor(s): Virginia WatsonSource: The North American Review, Vol. 218, No. 813 (Aug., 1923), p. 219Published by: University of Northern IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25113085 .
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KEYS OF THE CITY 219
As through the trees the summer's alchemy And through the earth the rain,?
Bringing with hidden touch and still
Its perfect will To flower again? Ah wide, more wide
Than any boundaries of sense
Lives on that boundless influence, Whose terms are infinite, whose sign is set
Where men no more remember or forget. . . .
So when you say "Remember me"?
Think well what that may be!
KEYS OF THE CITY BY VIRGINIA WATSON
Not my deserts, but the great love I bear
With freedom of the city she rewards, The keys of her Aladdin wealth accords, And to her special treasures makes me heir. Yet seek I not these riches where repair The merchants and the Midas-fingered lords, Nor where her palaces, like lifted swords, Flourish their bravery in the silvern air.
But mine I claim her golden rivers' flow, Her crystal bowl of winey atmosphere, Her water-gates wherein the four winds blow
The fragrant argosies from all the world, The little sparkling gems of hope and tear
With which her glorious garments are empearled.
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