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PARTISAN REVIEW
taken up as
if
they had not been interrupted, as if their continuance
had not, in fact, been raised to a higher level for a time. The motion–
picture theaters, the galleries, and the libraries enjoyed a sudden
flood of patrons, a particularly brutal murder was committed in
Brooklyn, the sport pages began to carry news of the ice sports at
various winter resorts, a boy of seventeen, scion of a very rich family,
disappeared from his home, Faber Gottschalk jumped or fell in front
of an onrushing subway train at the 42nd St. station of the I.R.T.,
and only a few were sufficiently disturbed to keep
in
mind,
with
the
help of photographs, the brief time in winter when statues had pre–
sented their interesting faces on all sides in the city of New York.
MARRIAGE AND MANNERS IN MANORS
These columns cIabbered the blue milk of the moon
And fluted the first sight of sun in the morning,
Heard the hunter horning the late coon
And the pear-bloom bugle an early warning.
When love fruited, the hearty pear was brought
And rolled among the firstlings on the floor:
The first second-hand furniture was bought,
A clear pane put in the stained-glass door.
My love came and was a yellowing pear
Ripened in blankets in a wind-shot house;
Tinkling blossoms fell from the chandelier
Dwindling to the gnawing of a mouse.
A dead-ripe pear on a delicate plate:
The last hinge holding falls from the gate.
JACKSON MATHEWS
