I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city, and behold ! here is the aboriginal name!

Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient,

I see that the word of my city, is that word up there.

Because I see that word nested in nests of water-bays, superb, with tall and wonderful spires.

Rich, hemmed thick all around with sailships and steamships — an island sixteen miles long, solid- founded.

Numberless crowded streets — high growths of iron, slender, strong, light, splendidly uprising toward clear skies;

Tides swift and ample, well-loved by me, toward sun-down.

The flowing sea-currents, the little islands, the larger adjoining fslands, the heights, the villas.

The countless masts, the white shore-steamers, the lighters, the ferry-boats, the black sea-steamers, well-model' d;

The down-town streets, the jobbers' houses of business — the houses of business of the ship-merchants, and money-brokers — the river-streets,