The Dial/Volume 15/Number 170/The Tower of Flame
THE TOWER OF FLAME.
The White City : July 10, 1893.
I.
Here for the world to see men brought their fairest;
Whatever of beauty is in all the earth:
The priceless flower of art, the loveliest, rarest,
Here by our inland ocean came to glorious birth.
II.
Yet on this day of doom a strange new splendor
Shed its celestial light on all men's eyes:
Flower of the hero-soul,—consummate, tender,—
That from the tower of flame sprang to the eternal
skies.
R. W. Gilder.