Flowering pear trees in midtown Manhattan, New York City, April 2013.
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning. . . .— William Wordsworth, “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802“
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