The first line refers the reader back to the final section of"The Walls Do Not Fall," which begins "Still the walls do notfall, / I do not know why," (74) meaning that the walls of language andspirituality persist despite threats to the physical world, offering astructure upon which humanity can rebuild a postwar society that bettervalues its culture and, by implication, the poets who interpret--andcontribute to--that culture. Here we are taken from that broadly spiritualrealm into one that is specifically Christian, since the second line refersto an image from the "Revelation of St. John" that describes heavenas a walled city: "And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: andthe city was pure gold, like unto clear glass." (75)
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