TRANSFORMATIONS [p. xxxvi]

I

The Town

Oh you stiff shapes, swift transformation seethes

About you: only last night you were

A Sodom smouldering in the dense, soiled air;

To-day a thicket of sunshine with blue smoke-wreaths.

To-morrow swimming in evening’s vague, dim vapour

Like a weeded city in shadow under the sea,

Beneath an ocean of shimmering light you will be: