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William Carlos Williams

Who knows the Palisades as I do
knows the river breaks east from them
above the city—but they continue south
— under the sky—to bear a crest of
little peering houses that brighten
with dawn behind the moody
water-loving giants of Manhattan.

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From Al Que Quiere! | The Four Seas Company, 1917

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