·THE·CITY·OF·LOVE·

ABOUT the time when garlanded green May

At Summer’s threshold casts her blossom crown,

Time bore me on his wingèd wheels away,

Out of the joyless city where I lay,

From smoke-dimmed streets whose dusky skies disown

The day-god’s glorious face, serene that shows

This day of days, to reign in his fair house,