Explore "The Great Cities (Wayfaring Psalms in Palestine)" by Henry Van Dyke on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
How wonderful are the cities that man hath builded: / Their walls are compacted of heavy stones, / And their lofty towers rise above the tree-tops.
Rome, Jerusalem, Cairo, Damascus, -- / Venice, Constantinople, Moscow, Pekin, -- / London, New York, Berlin, Paris, Vienna, --