VERS LIBRE
It would have been pedantic, while in America, to have abstained from an effort at vers libre.
REVOLT
I had been to the Metropolitan Museum looking at beautiful things and rejoicing in them.
And then I had to catch a train and go far into the country, to Paul Smith's.
And as the light lessened and the brooding hour set in I looked out of the window and reconstructed some of the lovely things I had seen—the sculptures and the paintings, the jewels and the porcelain: all the fine flower of the arts through the ages.
It seemed marvellous beyond understanding that such perfection could exist, and I thought how wonderful it must be to be God and see His creatures rising now and again to such heights.
And then I came to a station where there was to be a very long wait, and I went to an inn for a meal.