Sydney Bridge
Though I see you, O rainbow of iron and rivetted lace
As a dancer who leaps to the music of music and light,
And poised on the pin of the moment of marvelous grace
Holds her breath in the downfall and curve of her motionless flight;
Though you walk like a queen with the stays of your womanly steel
And the pearls of your bodice are heavy with sensual pride,
And the million come under your notice and graciously kneel,
As the navies of nations come slowly to moor at your side;
Yet your pace is the pace of a man's, and your arms are outspread
In a trick of endurance to charm the demand of the bays,
And your tendons are common - the cables are coarse on your head,
You are marxist and sweaty! You grin for the labor of days;
And O sphinx of our harbor of beauty, your banner is red
And outflung at the end of the world like a silvery phrase!
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