While crocus grow and cattle low
in cottaged countryside --
while waterwheels and fertile fields
have beauty undenied,
I know a place that's dear to me
where splendor towers high,
yet not one songbird builds its nest
in trees that pierce the sky.
This grandeur reaching to the clouds,
removed from pastured peace,
has no less strength than soaring oaks
on which my eye might feast.
Of steel and glass its glory's made,
with grace in ev'ry line.
Who says that only meadows grow
from God's inspired design?
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Author Notes
The Chrysler Building, designed by William Van Allen, stands a thousand feet tall at the corner of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue in New York City. Completed in May of 1930, it is renowned for its art deco design and revered by art critics and regular folk alike.
I fell in love with it as a small child each time my parents and I would drive through the city on the way to Long Island to visit my mother's family. I will fight anyone who tells me a more beautiful building exists.
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