Poem by Lola Ridge

Spires

  Spires of Grace Church,
  For you the workers of the world
  Travailed with the mountains...
  Aborting their own dreams
  Till the dream of you arose--
  Beautiful, swaddled in stone--
  Scorning their hands.

1. Dispossed
2. Scandal
3. Brooklyn Bridge
4. East River
5. Manhattan

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