Harvey Maitland Watts. Digging Foundations at Night. Hamilton Fish Armstrong, ed. 1917. The Book of New York Verse

Hamilton Fish Armstrong, ed. The Book of New York Verse. 1917.

Digging Foundations at Night

By Harvey Maitland Watts


Cortland Street HERE, where the forges sound their giant scale
Of thud and groan, and braziers belch their smoke;
In depths, unseen, backs bent, nor fear, nor quail
The myriads toil; bearing in cheer the yoke,
Knowing full well that soon, aloft, will rise	5
Some new Aladdin’s dream, scraping the very skies.