Twilight
The real fever of love for the place will begin to take hold
upon him. The subtle, insidious wine of New York will begin to
intoxicate him. Then, if he is wise, he will go away, any place - yes,
he will even go over to Jersey. But if he be a fool, he will stay
and stay on until the town becomes all in all to him; until the very
streets are his chums and certain buildings and corners his best
friends. Then he is hopeless, and to live elsewhere would be death.
The Bowery will be his romance, Broadway his lyric, and the Park his
pastoral, the river and the glory of it all his epic, and he will
look down pityingly on all the rest of humanity.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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