The Archive · 1924

WAKEFUL SHANGHAI

By Euanen [Cities are not real things.

They do not spring from the curth, ike flowers and trees; But are piled up by men, Made by man's) sch andi thought They are his ideas in brick and iron and stone.

Bishop Berkeley was right when said:

Nothing at all exi mind to perceive it.

That the reason why a ity never ai It's people must keep with Tt would vanish as does a dream, Tt would utterly disappear.

Tix buildings, its trants, its stones Would fade away into mist. Men keen the city alive, whether they hate it or love ity Their thought of it keeps' it al That is why all through the Phere always must be men waking, Never the peace of night and the silent stars, For the city: was made by man And without his thought it wontd

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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