Of huge, drab blunders into smaller grace ...

With old words I shall gamble for your face.

The evening kneels between your filthy brick,

Darkly indifferent to each scheme and trick

With which your men insult and smudge their day.

When evenings metaphysically pray

Above the weakening dance of men, they find

That every eye that looks at them is blind.

And yet, New York, I say that evenings free

An insolently mystic majesty