The Story of the Bronx: From the Purchase Made by the Dutch From the Indians in 1639 to the Present Day. E-book. Formato PDF Stephen Jenkins   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

To The BronxI sat me down upon a green bank side,Skirting the smooth edge of a gentle river,Whose waters seemed unwillingly to glide,Like parting friends, who linger while they sever;Enforced to go, yet seeming still unready,Backward they wind their way in many a wistful eddy.And I did leave thy loveliness to standAgain in the dull world of earthly blindness,Pain'd with the pressure of unfriendly hands,Sick of smooth looks, agued with icy kindness;Left I for this thy shades, where none intrude,To prison wandering thought and mar sweet solitude.Yet I will look upon thy face again,My own romantic Bronx, and it will beA face more pleasant than the face of men.Thy waves are old companions; I shall seeA well-remembered form in each old tree,And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.Joseph Rodman Drake.