Underlining phrases in an essay on an America in which the future is still to be realized, and the past and present are dramatically at odds. This new interest in the contradictions of America emerged in Crosby’s last years. The essay appeared in Transition 14 (Fall 1928).

The scrawled lines possibly read: "The office of / the gate of / Heaven / Cemetery / Mistress or Cerebus[?]" These lines reappear as a description of billboards glimpsed from a train on the way to the Harvard-Yale game on the October 24, 1928, diary entry constructed for Shadows of the Sun (Second Series).

The typescript is an unpublished, uncollected poem (c. 1928-1929) from a group under the collective title "Comme Poems."