Their sneeze is music in the dust.

(And deep and ancient is the dust.)

“All towns have one same miracle

With the Town of Silk, the capital—

Vast book-worms in the book-built walls.

Their creeping shakes the silver halls;

They look like cables, and they seem

Like writhing roots on trees of dream.

Their sticky cobwebs cross the street,

Catching scholars by the feet,