Beautiful City

Portrait of Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809–1892

Beautiful city

Beautiful city, the centre and crater of European confusion, O you with your passionate shriek for the rights of an equal humanity, How often your Re-volution has proven but E-volution Roll'd again back on itself in the tides of a civic insanity!

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