POMEGRANATES
IN city streets the blue dusk falls.The lights prick out. Folks hurry by.Buses are thronged. Sleek motors flash.“Extra—ship sunk!” the newsboys cry.Before a little shop I pauseWhere Pietro sells, strange, precious fruit,Great globes of scarlet, heaps of goldBarbaric as a pirate’s loot.I see pomegranates glowing there,And I forget the strident night,I hear the song of Solomon—“Return, return, O Shulamite.Thy lips are like a scarlet thread,O prince’s daughter, thou art fair;Thy garments are perfumed with myrrh,With aloes drips thy braided hair.”Dim fragrant gardens close me in,The city as a dream has gone,And from the South I feel the windsBlow soft from cedared Lebanon.
IN city streets the blue dusk falls.The lights prick out. Folks hurry by.Buses are thronged. Sleek motors flash.“Extra—ship sunk!” the newsboys cry.Before a little shop I pauseWhere Pietro sells, strange, precious fruit,Great globes of scarlet, heaps of goldBarbaric as a pirate’s loot.I see pomegranates glowing there,And I forget the strident night,I hear the song of Solomon—“Return, return, O Shulamite.Thy lips are like a scarlet thread,O prince’s daughter, thou art fair;Thy garments are perfumed with myrrh,With aloes drips thy braided hair.”Dim fragrant gardens close me in,The city as a dream has gone,And from the South I feel the windsBlow soft from cedared Lebanon.
IN city streets the blue dusk falls.The lights prick out. Folks hurry by.Buses are thronged. Sleek motors flash.“Extra—ship sunk!” the newsboys cry.
Before a little shop I pauseWhere Pietro sells, strange, precious fruit,Great globes of scarlet, heaps of goldBarbaric as a pirate’s loot.
I see pomegranates glowing there,And I forget the strident night,I hear the song of Solomon—“Return, return, O Shulamite.
Thy lips are like a scarlet thread,O prince’s daughter, thou art fair;Thy garments are perfumed with myrrh,With aloes drips thy braided hair.”
Dim fragrant gardens close me in,The city as a dream has gone,And from the South I feel the windsBlow soft from cedared Lebanon.