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IN THE NEW GARDEN, IN ALL THE PARTS, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
Last Line: You, born years, centuries after me, I seek
Subject(s): Modern Life; Time


IN the new garden, in all the parts,
In cities now, modern, I wander,
Though the second or third result, or still further,primitive yet,
Days, places, indifferent''"though various, the same,
Time, Paradise, the Mannahatta, the prairies, finding me unchanged,
Death indifferent''"Is it that I lived long since?
Was I buried very long ago?
For all that, I may now be watching you here, this moment;
For the future, with determined will, I seek''"the woman of the future,
You, born years, centuries after me, I seek.





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