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THE LAST MAN: SUBTERRANEAN CITY by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES

Poet Analysis

First Line: CAN IT THEN BE, THAT THE EARTH LOVED SOME CITY
Last Line: YET LEGIBLE?
Subject(s): CITIES; URBAN LIFE;

CAN it then be, that the earth loved some city,
Another planet's child, so long, so truly,
That here we find its image next her heart,
Like an abandoned, melancholy thought
Yet legible?



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