II
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My heart has become as hard as a city street,
The horses trample upon it, it sings like iron,
All day long and all night long they beat,
They ring like the hooves of time.
— Conrad Aiken
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "My heart has become as hard as a city street,
The horses trample upon it, it sings like iron,
All day long and all night long they beat,
They ring like the hooves of time." in the context of "II" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Conrad Aiken" (Quotes, Discordants (1916): Published in Turns and Movies and Other Tales in Verse (1916) )
The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app
