Excerpt from Farewell to America IN mist and driving snow the tow ers of New York fade from View. The great ship slides down the river. Already the dark, broad seas gloom before her. Good-bye, most beau tiful of modern cities! Good-bye to glimmering spires and lighted bastions, dreamlike as the castles and cathedrals of a romantic vision though mainly devoted to commerce and finance! Good-bye to thin films of white steam that issue from cen tral furnaces and flit in dissolving wreaths around those precipitous heights ...
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Excerpt from Farewell to America IN mist and driving snow the tow ers of New York fade from View. The great ship slides down the river. Already the dark, broad seas gloom before her. Good-bye, most beau tiful of modern cities! Good-bye to glimmering spires and lighted bastions, dreamlike as the castles and cathedrals of a romantic vision though mainly devoted to commerce and finance! Good-bye to thin films of white steam that issue from cen tral furnaces and flit in dissolving wreaths around those precipitous heights! Good-bye to heaven-piled ofiices, so clean, so warm, where lovely stenographers, with silk stock ings and powdered faces, sit leisurely at work or converse in charmingease! Good-bye, New Ybrk! I am going home. I am going to an an cient city of mean and mouldering streets, of ignoble coverts for man kind, extended monotonously over many miles; of grimy smoke clinging closer than a blanket; of smudgy typists who know something of pow der but little of silk, and less of leis ure and charming ease. Good-bye, New York! I am going home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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