The place where a great city stands is not the place of stretch'd wharves, docks, manufactures, deposits of produce merely,
Nor the place of ceaseless salutes of new-comers or the anchor-lifters of the departing,
Nor the place of the tallest and costliest buildings or shops selling goods from the rest of the earth,
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We would like to opt for and to stay at such a wonderful place on earth, wherever it does exist: Where no monuments exist to heroes but in the common words and deeds / Where the citizen is always the head and ideal, and President, Mayor, Governor and what not, are agents for pay / Where equanimity is illustrated in affairs.
Where the city of the cleanliness of the sexes stands, Where the city of the healthiest fathers stands, Where the city of the best-bodied mothers stands, There the great city stands. conviction that burst into conclusions. tony