Poems by Herman Scheffauer

Westward the pillars slender
Of Hercules it lay--
The land whose pride and splendor
Once burne...

White, white they lie, smoke-smitten roofs and streets, --
Their yearlong black distemper blan...

Atlantes of the firmament! Abrupt
The granite monsters of Manhattan frown, --
Phalanx of Titans...