Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious
you are to me!
On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning
home, are more curious to me than you suppose,
And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more
to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.by Walt Whitman
this is how the Fulton Ferry Landing looks like in 1880s and the ferry croosing over the sea.
compare to present:
We still can see the Brooklyn bridge still standing here. Now the ferries are more faster and looks more pretty than before. People are taking the ferries everyday as the people did in the past. As Whitman say ” And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.”
sources:
http://fultonferry.org/history/
http://nicole.lookingforwhitman.org/files/2009/09/brooklyn_bridge_new_york.jpg
