Wallpaper

Sunset and Scallop-edg'd Waves
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Ah, what can ever be more stately and admirable to me
   than mast-hemm'd Manhattan?
River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?
The sea-gulls oscillating their bodies, the hay-boat in
   the twilight, and the belated lighter?

-- Walt Whitman

This wallpaper features a stunning view of the harbor bathed in pink light, with a verse from Walt Whitman's poem, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." To download a copy, right-click and save if using a PC or CTRL-click and save if using a Mac.

New York City's pre-eminent poet, Walt Whitman (1819-1892) lived much of his life in Brooklyn. As a child, he loved crossing the East River by ferry to what was then the separate city of New York, an experience he memorialized in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." In it, he celebrated "the gladness of the river and the bright flow." To readers like us, yet unborn, he declared: "I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence, Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt."