Translations from the Chinese/Inscription for a Man-hole in Brooklyn

by Christopher Morley

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INSCRIPTION FOR A MAN-HOLE IN BROOKLYN

SOMETIMES,
In spinning over the leaves of a book,
The eye catches a glamourous phrase
That a methodical search through the volume
Fails to rediscover.
Even so, every day,
There are moments of shining astonishment
That my sober retrospection
Can never define.