And it's all so mad!\r
The earth trembles,\r
Everyone looks to see a clue-\r
What, why or who?\r
Some unearthly machine called the Slwnbovian Circus of Dreams-\r
To which little girls in pigtails bounce,\r
And little boys with sunglasses nod,\r
And try to snap fingers with a miss, with a miss!\r
Like spring but autumnal too!\r
NOW WE'RE ALIVE!\r
Old woman smiles with squint-glance into painting's tent,\r
Tear of joy, tear of sadness?\r
Or old watering eye of a million yesterdays?\r
What does she recognize in the stroke and blot?\r
Body-to-body, to love these throngs,\r
Bumping into a reporter or two.\r
These are our people, Norwich, oh Norwich,\r
When were we last home? No humble sigh here!\r
See the dust on the woodworker's hands.\r
It's created, it's through.\r
Pete Kennedy looks across the grounds, almost elfish and keen,\r
And his eyes seem to say:\r
""Bless this Chenango, it is home,\r
Along quiet banks of Bullthistle rivers!\r
Population converging where Broad meets Main,\r
And lamby clouds plumply hovering over,\r
Last of the trodden clover, oh heart!\r
Such vast hills nestling, this peaceful playground,\r
We were called here to dance!""\r
And we know...\r
Oh Norwich, thou art the most gaping wound in the earth,\r
sore and lamenting,\r
crucified and neglected,\r
But show thy beauty\r
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