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the city of their thought, and
abide in the peopled center of
their ideals.

Such a city as they
would choose does not yet exist,
and the longing serves but as a
prophecy, awaiting the years of its
fulfillment. It can not be
all a dream, that, on some shore
of our spreading civilization there
shall arise a city, having so many
of all the advantages of every other
city, and so few of their offensive
features, that a common impulse
of all outreaching natures shall