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LATTER-DAY PSALMS
THE CITY
I went into a city to see if there be God.
The sun was hidden from my sight; the city roared in my ears.
The people hurried to and fro all the day long; their eyes were unquiet.
The half of them starved, and saw death daily before them. The half of them were surfeited, and stirred up strange desires.
Things of no moment were in their minds all the day long. They fought one with another, as monkeys over a straw.
With ceremony they made believe to be holy; yet were they proud of aping the wicked.
The men whetted their lust upon the women; and the women were weary of motherhood.
The men and women were loathsome, for they had forgotten love.
The sun was hidden from my sight; the city roared in my ears.
The people hurried to and fro all the day long; their eyes were unquiet.
The half of them starved, and saw death daily before them. The half of them were surfeited, and stirred up strange desires.
Things of no moment were in their minds all the day long. They fought one with another, as monkeys over a straw.
With ceremony they made believe to be holy; yet were they proud of aping the wicked.
The men whetted their lust upon the women; and the women were weary of motherhood.
The men and women were loathsome, for they had forgotten love.
