Exercise

The British founded this America
And had to; freed from feudalinity
Quicker than other peoples, French and Spanish,
Being an island and a sailor nation,
Having a merchant and a farmer class,
They could not lose, the other nations must
Fail in the end, though long and mixed the course,
Since history is full of areas
Barred at extremes, but open in the fields
To many kinds of games and temperaments...

What prose this is, how find the words which would
Show in themselves, their very flesh, the light
Which shines in these developments and means
The Gods in sluggish lives enter all days--

Mark how the music hangs like chandeliers
In dining rooms of great hotels. And mark,
The factory, long and low-lying, belongs
To the same class of objects and of things
As penitentiaries and hospitals--

"Call us what you will, we are made such by love":
This, fraud, is wiser than Vienna knew,
And with these words beginning, I will now
Define my attitude to Central Park...

As when the fire-engines thrill the night,
Alarming intuitions came to me
I saw the darkness which the lovers wished,
I saw the secret seas in which they fished--
I saw bored boys invade this careful Nature,
I saw the slipping cars drive on and on,
Lending a rhythm which was nowhere else
To this pure city place where the band played...

C.J.Herrick: The nerve cells in the brain
number from ten to fourteen billion--the fibers
which connect them with other cells are a
stupendous number--fifteen million zeros after
the number one!

America has 950,000 in the bank - tubes
in the world.

America has 750,000 in the bank.